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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, calling the 2021 bill legalizing sports betting his "biggest mistake" in office, a rare public admission from a sitting governor about a law he signed. DeWine said more Ohioans are gambling and losing money as a result, and that athletes are being abused online by bettors. (Ohio Capital Journal)
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Federal prosecutors, describing the stated motivation of Gabriel Mendoza-Acoltzi, 19, of West Valley, Ariz., who is facing federal arson charges after attempting to set fire to a warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to convert into a 1,500-bed detention center. Court documents say Mendoza-Acoltzi drove to the warehouse, tried to cut the building's water supply, smashed a window with a hammer, and tossed a lit propane tank through the opening before the building's fire suppression system extinguished the blaze. (Arizona Mirror)
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Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Orlando-based Tavistock, pausing in surprise after her commencement address to the University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities was met with immediate boos when she told graduates that "the rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." The incident was one of at least three this spring in which commencement speakers were booed for mentioning AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who pressed on over sustained crowd noise at the University of Arizona, acknowledging the response: "I can hear you. There is a fear." (Fast Company)
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Jimmie Lee, a Jersey City transit advocate and member of Hudson County Complete Streets, addressing NJ TRANSIT's board this week about the agency's notoriously unreliable bus tracking app, which is currently only 75 percent to 80 percent accurate. NJ Transit's board responded by approving a $6.4 million contract to upgrade its GPS bus tracking technology, part of an $18 million effort that also includes new locomotive modems for real-time train tracking, moves required under an executive order from Gov. Mikie Sherrill aimed at improving rider information across the system. (NJ.com)
