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Housing market power shift: 7 states where buyers are gaining leverage

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Generally speaking, local housing markets where active inventory has returned to pre-pandemic levels have experienced softer home price growth (or outright price declines) over the past 30 months. These areas saw major price surges during the pandemic housing boom, with home prices getting stretched compared to local incomes.

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Florida is about to ban fluoride in public drinking water, following RFK Jr.’s crusade to get rid of it

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Florida lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Tuesday after Utah became the first state to pass a ban last month. Some local officials in Florida have already voted to remove the mineral from their community water systems, ahead of state lawmakers’ push to ban fluoride. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

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Brands are ditching lifetime warranties—but not because they’re taking advantage of you

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Two years later, by then a team lead, Barrus launched a guerrilla repair program: When customers sent in their broken gear, hed drive it to his moms house in Utah where she would fix it up on her sewing machine, and ship it back. It wasnt that consumers were gaming the system; they just expected durability.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

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In March 2024, Blackstone loaned the company $600 million to finance the build of Aligneds newest and largest data center, in West Jordan, Utah. Aligned has over 5,000MW of data centers in the planning and design phase or under construction. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from $24.2 billion in 2024 to $54.7

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Sundance Film Festival to leave Utah and head to Colorado in 2027

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After a yearlong search, the Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that its new home will be Boulder, Colorado, keeping Sundance in the mountains but moving it out of Park City, the Utah ski town that had for decades provided the premier independent film gathering its picturesque snowy backdrop. Republican Utah Gov.

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How to build resilient water systems in communities battling climate change

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asked Tome, a citizen who grew up in the community of Ganado, Arizona, in the nation’s largest Native American reservation at 27,000 square miles (69,930 square kilometers) in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Climate impacts and the Trump administration Weather extremes made worse by climate change have disrupted peoples access to water.

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Why the Trump administration wants to end water fluoridation

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State and local governments decide whether to add fluoride to water and, if so, how much as long as it doesnt exceed the EPA’s limit of 4 milligrams per liter. Some places are already pulling back on fluoridation Utah recently became the first state to ban fluoride in drinking water, and legislators elsewhere are looking at the issue.