Your weekend must reads📰
Good morning, friends of The Short List weekend edition!✨ How about this weird weather? I can't remember the last time I saw "Southern California" and "blizzard" parked next to one another in the same headline.❄️ Anyway, I'm John Riley, and here are your weekend must reads.
🔵 Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Paste BN hit the topic hard all week, with stories that focused on the war's impact in Ukraine and here in the U.S.
- 'There's a lot more of the iceberg': Ukrainian children taken to Russia brings back fear and memories of a similar Nazi effort
- 'It's hard, but they're holding on': On the ground in Ukraine, the war depends on U.S. weapons
- 'They can come for you': Putin steps up crackdown on Russian protesters
- Reaching out: How ordinary Americans are helping Ukrainian refugees
- Uncertain future: Many refugees not sure they want to return home
💵 Gimme more Money: Paste BN's Money team was on a roll this week, delivering timely pieces on housing, taxes and personal finance:
- Living on 'Standby': You can get cheap rent, but it comes with a 'bump' notice
- 'Bottoming out': Are homebuyers now calling the shots in 2023 housing market?
- Dodging the tax man: How do rich people avoid taxes?
- Inheritance tax: Here's how much inherited money is taxed state-by-state
🏈 "Prime Time" profile: Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders (better known as "Prime Time") made quite a splash in December when he became head coach of Colorado's struggling football team. "I'm coming," Coach Prime warned a roomful of nervous players. "And when I get here, it's gonna be change."
Coach Prime has kept his promise, hauling in prized recruits and generating buzz with a dazzling media campaign engineered by his oldest son Deion Sanders Jr. He also has voiced some controversial opinions. Can Sanders turn the 1-11 Buffaloes around? The betting markets say yes: At Caesars Sportsbook, Colorado has received more bets to win the 2024 CFP national championship than all but five teams.
Keep reading: There are more great stories below.👇 As always, thanks for your support!