During the annual “State of the City” address Friday at Gold Dust West, Carson City’s Mayor Bob Crowell gave his last speech of its kind, as he is retiring at the end of this year.
related to russia s stance on ukraine. i think in retrospect, that we in the obama administration should have escalated with our sanctions. we didn t do so. bret: during the course of the trump administration, additional designations were added. some of those were in response to russian cyber activity. putin s support for north korea and u.s. election interference. russia, prior to the advent of the ukraine war, was actually relatively well integrated to the global financial economy well as the republic of iran wasn t. joe biden was in office a little over a year when russia launched its invasion in ukraine. the response to the war was global. these sanctions were basically by escalatoryless. u.s. worked with allies around the world to implement thousands of additional sanctions. most of russia s sanctions were imposed all at once. iran is different.
every single month from these surprise bills. but, these are bills that cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars. get this. some healthcare providers are trying to get around the rule by putting in place the rule that we put in place to prevent the surprise billings. the travel industry figured out how to charge customers $90 a night at resort fees for hotels in our resorts. [ laughter ] you think i m kidding. [ laughter ] hospitals are trying to do something similar. by using different designations to charge the higher out-of- network rates, or charging hidden facility fees for going to a doctor s office in the building owned by the hospital. and some hospitals are working with credit card companies to promote radical credit cards .
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could probably chat all morning but we have to move on. let s get some of the day s other news now. general motors will adopt tesla s charging plug standard in the us, giving gm electric vehicle buyers access to the tesla supercharger network. gm s move follows a similar deal by ford, meaning three of america s top electric car makers in the have agreed on a standard charging system, accounting for 70% of us ev sales. qantas has become the latest airline to scrap male and female uniform designations so that anyone can choose whether to wear flat shoes, jewellery, make up and long hair. the australian carrier had come under pressure from a trade union over its requirement for female staff to wear heels and make up. british rival virgin atlantic has also scrapped its gendered uniform requirements and introduced optional pronoun badges. toilet roll, butter and ketchup are more expensive in the uk compared with some of its biggest european neighbours, research for the bbc suggests.