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It is our number one industry. Today, it is the foundation of our economy. I grew up on a farm, many people in south dakota are one or two generations or immediately off a farm or ranch. That is our strength. We are also a tourist destination. We have Mount Rushmore, the badlands. Lots of things that ring tourism that brings tourism to south dakota. We are also a Financial Services locale. People would not think that. But in the early 1980s, when the Interest Rates were skyrocketing and citibank was losing money in new york, they were they moved their credit card operation to south dakota, whe...

Was talking about. So that made the conundrum period youre talking about much easier for our crowd because, we had the agenda in a 300 page book that people had internalized. People those who had worked for the campaign. We had the game plan set out for us and the reason i say that is a blessing, that we were blessed and having to run the campaign is that it made the george w. Bush administration unusually well prepared to govern and the said development and a lot of and are campaigning now is that policy does nothing to be that important and i think what we need to find is a way back, i dont ...

They outline what it takes for a city to be future ready. This is an hour and 25 minutes. All right, good afternoon and thank you for joining us for the event, local economies of the future and how cities thrive in the digital age. I am the Vice President of Global Innovation policy at the Information Technology and foundation. I will be your moderator. I should mention the twitter handle for this event is futurecities. Have become key economic units driving the modern global economy. It is expected that cities will account for 90 of global population growth in this century. The advent of many...

But just a few hours earlier, the scene was very different. A second night of unrest gripped the city. As protesters angry over the death of Keith Lamont Scott vented their rage scott was shot tuesday police say he brandished a weapon but his family says he was reading a book in his vehicle. Amid the unrest wednesday evening, north carolinas governor declared a state of emergency and said hed deploy both the National Guard and the state Highway Patrol to charlotte. One person was shot by another civilian, according to authorities, and is in the hospital on life support. Several Police Officers...

Contribute more to the operation side of metro, then the next time something bad happens, hes coming back here and blaming congress. So theres been a lot of bad blood thats already been spilled here on capitol hill this afternoon. Before all of this, there was another meeting with the local congressional delegation. Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld was there in that meeting. Virginia senator tim kaine was telling him he thinks the metro board is actually too involved in the daytoday operations of whats going on in metro. Take a listen to that. A lot of my concern about leadership has been ...