Each year, Forbes puts together a list of the world s most wealthy billionaires.
Every billionaire has his or her own story. Some are created by generation, inheriting theirs through family fortune or corporation. Others, like Mark Zuckerburg, make their billions through technology boom. Still others are made overnight, like MacKenzie Bezos, the former wife of the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos, who will receive 4% of Amazon or roughly $35 billion following their split.
Besides sharing the overall results of their findings, Forbes also reveals the leading billionaire (or centimillionaires in states with no billionaires) in each state. For the second year in a row, Minnesota s wealthiest billionaire according to Forbes is 79-year old
Reggie Foster, Latinist to 4 popes, dies at 81 The petrol guy defied convention, became cult teacher
28 Dicembre 2020
NEW YORK, DEC 28 - Father Reginald Foster, Latinist
to four popes and one of the world s top Latin teachers, died of
COVID on Christmas Day in his care home in Milwaukee.
He was 81.
Foster, who wrote, spoke, swore and tweeted in Latin, was
nicknamed by the Swiss Guards the petrol station guy because
of the worker s clothes he wore in defiance of apostolic pomp.
For over 40 years he worked in the Vatican translating
encyclicals, bulls and apostolic letters in the language he fell
in love with as a teenager.
Bloomington police chief announces retirement Follow Us
Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, December 26, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The police chief of Bloomington, Minnesota announced Saturday he plans to retire at the end of January and take a position leading the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Police Chief Jeff Potts will complete a 29-year career at the department that began when he became a patrol officer at age 23. He has been police chief for 12 years.
Potts, 52, willl become the executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police in February.
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On Thursday (Dec. 24), the Minnesota Racing Commission granted Running Aces approval to conduct a 55-day harness racing meet in 2021.
The Columbus, Minn., facility is slated to begin their 2021 meet the 15th in the track s existence on May 16. As in recent seasons, Running Aces will offer three cards per week, but in a departure from past summers, Saturday racing will be replaced with Thursday cards. Sunday and Tuesday round out the trio of live racing dates each week through the meet s conclusion on Sept. 18.
After conducting afternoon racing during the 2020 season, Running Aces will revert to a 6 p.m. (CT) post time in 2021.
Antigay Counselor Marcus Bachmann Gets Presidential Appointment
Bachmann, husband of former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, has been accused of practicing conversion therapy. December 24 2020 5:54 PM EST
Donald Trump has announced a series of appointments in the last days of his presidency, among them naming anti-LGBTQ+ counselor Marcus Bachmann to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Bachmann, the husband of former Minnesota congresswoman and onetime presidential aspirant Michele Bachmann, has been accused of practicing conversion therapy at his so-called Christian counseling clinics. He has sometimes denied engaging in the discredited and harmful practice, designed to turn LGBTQ+ people straight or cisgender, and sometimes said it’s up to the client whether to attempt such change. Undercover activists have, however, obtained evidence of conversion therapy going on at the clinics.