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☆ ABCs not LGBTs: Battles over race, gender inflame Texas school board vote
  + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +9 min
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct 22 - At traffic-choked intersections in this Texas town, a blunt campaign slogan stands out from clusters of candidate signs: “Teach ABCs + 123s, Not CRTs & LGBTs." Blood-sport politics have come to school board elections in Round Rock, a rapidly growing and diversifying suburb of Austin. Zimmerman is running against incumbent Tiffanie Harrison, a progressive and the first Black woman elected to the Round Rock school board. Ryan Girdusky, who founded the 1776 Project, estimated about 70% of his school board candidates have won in elections held so far this year. FOLLOW THE MONEYIn school board races where name recognition may be the largest factor, a few thousand dollars can make a difference.
☆ Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico on Sunday, prompting catastrophic floods and knocking out power across the island
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico's southwest coast on Sunday afternoon. "The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic," Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi said on Sunday, per The Associated Press. "Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" is forecast to continue across the majority of Puerto Rico, the National Hurricane Center said. After slamming into Puerto Rico on Sunday, Hurricane Fiona moved into the Dominican Republic on Monday morning. The National Hurricane Center said on Monday that "hurricane conditions" were expected to continue over portions of the Dominican Republic.
☆ Family offices invested a record $120 billion in startups last year, fueling a new wave of entrepreneurs
  + stars: | 2022-08-09 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Family offices more than doubled their direct investments in startups last year to more than $120 billion, remaking the venture-capital landscape and launching a new wave of family-office funded entrepreneurs. Single family offices invested $123 billion in direct venture capital deals last year, up from $55 billion in 2020, according to a report from SVB Capital. There are now more than 10,000 family offices worldwide — most created over the past decade — with over $6 trillion in assets under management. In-house deal teams "Family offices are leaning in to the venture asset class," said Shailesh Sachdeva, managing director of SVB Capital's Family Office practice. As they balloon in size and sophistication, family offices are becoming deal powerhouses in their own right.
Persons: Shailesh Sachdeva, SVB, Sachdeva, Younger, Joe Stadler, Stadler, Mark Ang, Michael Hyatt, Hyatt barraged Ang, Ang, Hyatt Organizations: SVB, UBS, UBS Global Wealth Management, University of Toronto, Hyatt Family, Hyatt Locations: Canadian
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