This week, we discuss the Grand Junction City Council’s move to ban fireworks sales due to this year’s extreme drought conditions in a disquieting 4-3 vote, despite the fire chief’s recommendation in favor of a ban, the mechanisms behind the Opportunity Zone program that invests in depressed areas across the nation, and the major drawbacks of popular prediction markets, which are fueling gambling addictions among young men, denying states a reliable funding source, and leading to questions about how these markets could detrimentally mold public policy and government actions.

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