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RBC | If there’s a dominant force in the Colorado River Basin these days, it’s the Walton Family Foundation, flush with close to $5 billion to give away.
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Run by the heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton, the foundation donates $25 million a year to nonprofits concerned about the Colorado River. It’s clear the foundation cares deeply about the River in this time of excruciating drought, and some of its money goes to river restoration or more efficient irrigation.
Yet its main interest is promoting “demand management,” the water marketing scheme that seeks to add 500,000 acre-feet of water to declining Lake Powell by paying rural farmers to temporarily stop irrigating.
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absolutely. paul, my prediction is this year we get a deal on the young adult dreamers who were brought to this country illegally. we talked about that earlier in the show. i think is james freeman said it s been out there a long time and they can trade order security and wall funding for theat president. trump has said he has compassion for individuals who are brought here to serve in the military and go to college. i think this comes after a favorable supreme court ruling to trump and i think it would be good for the country. dan beard i m going to make a prediction about the outcome of theio o mueller report that i cn also make a prediction wanting to come out in 2019. this he does issueue this repor, the two things are whether the president s campaign colluded with the russians at a very high level and whether president trump obstructed justice. on both of those counts i think the answer is going to be no. so no collusion but