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LAS VEGAS (AP) — To Mike Anger in Midland, Michigan, a $100 round-trip airline flight...

Editors note: This is Part 1 in a three part series by the Reno Gazette Journal exploring the unprecedented pitch to lawmakers to allow tech companies to form their own governments in Nevada. On Tuesday, read about how the proposal has set two colorful powerbrokers at odds for control of Storey County. On Wednesday, youll finally learn the backstory of the man behind the entire enterprise. This kind of journalism takes time and resources. To read the entire series, please consider subscribing.�...

Modern Diplomacy Published 3 weeks ago The Valdai International Club recently hosted a “Whose Rules? Revisionists and Protectors in World Politics” online discussion, timed for the release of the Club’s new report “Institutional revisionism in international politics: a product of an upswing, a child of decline, or something else?” During the event, prominent Russian and foreign experts focused on the impact of revisionist tendencies on world politics. The current trend in internation...

Brittney Way Discover More Angela Castañeda, anthropology professor, is the co-author of an article, “Practising Intimate Labour: Birth Doulas Respond during COVID-19," which was recently published in the journal  Anthropology in Action. Seth Friedman, associate professor of communication and theatre and director of the Film Studies Program, is the author of a peer-reviewed article, “Beyond the Infinite Interpretations: The Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey and...

Nevada Governor Proposes City-Like Innovation Zones The new Innovation Zones will function like regular cities, but how are they different from a company town? Marcia Wendorf  On February 26, 2021, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak was joined by Michael Brown, the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, and Jeremy Aguero, principal analyst at Applied Analysis to discuss the state’s Innovation Zone proposal. As we previously reported, Governor Sisolak first unveil...

Governor Steve Sisolak Nevada’s governor Steve Sisolak has outlined more details of his controversial proposal to allow technology companies to establish Innovation Zones in the state. The developments are pitched as an “alternative form of local government political subdivision” with powers similar to those of county governments. The plan for the greenfield smart cities is a bid to diversify Nevada’s economy through technologies such as blockchain, autonomous systems, Internet of Thing...

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