The state of our city is resilient, disciplined and forward looking. We are not without challenges. But we also have remarkable strengths. Fiscal challenges placed tension between what we want to do and what we can afford to do.
Last winter, it appeared that two groups were in a tenuous relationship, held together by Elon Musk's shameless execution of the DOGE agenda and Big Tech signing massive checks to settle Donald Trump's lawsuits against them. But last night, the Trump administration made a choice: the money. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that they would sue any state who tried to regulate prediction markets like Kalshi - even the Republican states.
AI preemption would not apply to local infrastructure. That's a separate issue," Sacks wrote. "In short, preemption would not force communities to host data centers they don't want.
Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the "HOTTEST" in the World, but overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Major Growth "Engine." Some States are even trying to embed DEI ideology into AI models, producing "Woke AI" (Remember Black George Washington?). We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes. If we don't, then China will easily catch us in the AI race.
In conservative states, a spate of recent laws gives legislators and governors more control over public higher education curriculum, take authority from faculty over educational policy decisions, and require the policing of faculty and programs for left-leaning bias. States exercising increasing levels of control over public colleges and universities are moving toward a regulatory environment for higher education more like that for public elementary and secondary schools.
In the United States over the last decade, kratom has gone from obscure to ubiquitous, with signage touting its availability appearing on storefronts and billboards all over the country. It's even picked up some steam in a more high-end form - even as the FDA has explored ways to regulate 7-OH, a substance derived from the kratom leaf.It's worth noting from the outset here that kratom can mean very different things.
In addition to consumers, housing industry players are also feeling the strain caused by rising premiums. Affordability is already a challenge for homeowners and insurance is just another catalyst making it more difficult for a lot of consumers to continue making their payments, Toby Wells, the president of Cornerstone Servicing, said. He adds that this, in turn, drives up costs for servicers as they need to provide these consumers with loss mitigation efforts.
