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This Lego Defender 90 Is the Cheapest Way to Get a Vintage Land Rover

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Lego Land Rover Defender 90

Lego Land Rover Defender 90

The current Land Rover Defender is nicely designed, comfortable, incredibly capable off-road and can be ordered with a 518-hp V8. And yet, it just doesn’t have the same charm as the Defender it replaced. There’s just something special about the classic design. But if you can’t justify buying a bare-bones off-roader with questionable-at-best reliability, maybe this Lego Land Rover Defender 90 set will be more your speed.

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To be clear, though, this set isn’t going to be cheap. It costs $239.99, which isn’t exactly Lego Millennium Falcon money, but it’s also not something you’ll probably pick up for your kid’s classmate’s birthday party. Unless you just happen to be that kind of generous. In that case, hell yeah, and thank you for spreading the Lego love.

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Lego Land Rover Defender 90

Lego Land Rover Defender 90

That said, it does come with 2,336 pieces, so maybe the price won’t feel as high if you think of it as a little more than 10 cents per piece. It also isn’t small, measuring 13 inches long, seven inches wide and seven inches tall. Plus, there’s the fact that it looks absolutely fantastic in photos. Sure,

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Surrey, BC to hold public meeting on potential 17.5% property tax hike – BC

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A public meeting is being held on Monday to discuss Surrey’s budget and the potential 17.5 per cent property tax hike.

The proposed tax hike is a culmination of several factors, according to the city, including the possible halt of the city’s police force transition, global inflation, and other civic services.

The potential double-digit increase in property tax has people in the city worried.

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Proposed double-digit property tax hike in Surrey draws ire

“The Surrey Board of Trade is very concerned about the City of Surrey’s proposed tax increase,” said Anita Huberman, Surrey Board of Trade’s CEO and president.

“We do not know and it’s not clear what businesses are going to be facing when they receive their property tax bill in July.”

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Huberman said he was worried about businesses within the city, as many have already had substantial property tax increases in previous years.

“Every industry classification is different — it depends upon how much land businesses own and how much land they have,” she said.

“Some of our manufacturers have already faced a 150 per cent property tax increase in each of the past three years. It is unsustainable to do business

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Study analyzes land ownership by location

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Experts expect nearly 40% of American agricultural land will transition ownership in the next 15 years. As Kansas farmers retire and land is either sold or inherited by farming or non-farming heirs, the makeup and location of the new owners of that land has been changing over time, reports Kansas State University agricultural economist Robin Reid.

Reid worked with the Kansas Property Valuation Division of the Department of Revenue to analyze agricultural land ownership by location. The researchers used data from 2015, the last most complete year of data available. The results, reported in January, show that 84.5% of acres in the study are owned by individuals or entities living in Kansas. Of those, 54.6% live in the same county as their parcel.

The remaining 15.5% of acres were owned by individuals or entities living outside of Kansas; Texas tops the list at just over 1.2 million Kansas agricultural land acres owned by Texans. Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri — states bordering Kansas — own the next-largest portions of Kansas ag land. California individuals and entities follow, with just under 450,000 acres.

Reid’s team offered a county-by-county analysis of land ownership in its report.

Cheyenne County. About 480 acres

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China isn’t leader in land ownership in South Dakota, the USDA says

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SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Gov. Kristi Noem is concerned, and at least several lawmakers are concerned, about foreign ownership of agricultural land.

The state already has a law that restricts foreign ownership of agricultural land by a person or government to 160 acres. But the proposal in 2023 appears to be more restrictive than state law 43-2A-2 passed in 1979.

The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee voted 7-0 on Feb. 14 to send SB-185 forward to the full Senate. The bill calls for creating a board to review purchases or leases of agricultural land by foreign persons or entities, with the governor deciding whether to allow a transaction to proceed.

Noem is focused on Chinese-ownership of agricultural land.

“We also have a duty to protect South Dakota land from national security threats. Possibly the greatest external threat facing our nation today is the Chinese Communist Party. Unfortunately, foreign countries now hold approximately 40 million acres of ag land in the United States – and that number will only increase as evil governments like China step up their game,” Noem wrote in an opinion piece published on Feb. 2 on news.sd.gov.

Multiple media have reported about the Chinese Community

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Colts Rumors: Proposed Trade Lands Colts QB Bryce Young in NFL Mock Draft

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A proposed trade indirect general manager Chris Ballard and the Indianapolis Colts a former Heisman Trophy winner.

The Indianapolis Colts are reportedly closing in on who will become their next head coach. It wouldn’t be surprising if the team also found a long-term solution at quarterback this offseason.

NFL writer Michael Renner of Pro Football Focus argued the Colts will get that signal caller by exercising a draft trade. Renner projected Indianapolis to move up to the No. 1 pick to select Alabama signal caller Bryce Young.

“It’ll take a premium to move up for a prospect like Bryce Young (Pick Nos. 4 and 36 and a 2024 second-rounder is what I’d project), but it’s well worth it for the quarterback-starved Colts,” Renner wrote. “What Young did to an NFL defense in Georgia’s 2021 unit makes me worry a lot less about his size going forward.”

In Renner’s proposed trade, the Colts would keep their 2024 first-rounder. However, the Colts wouldn’t make another selection this year after No. 1 until the third round at No. 80 overalls.

Colts Trade Up to No. 1 to Draft Young

The 2023 draft class is much deeper at quarterback than last year. But

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BrightStone works to raise a final million of $20 million campus for adults with special needs

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Franklin-based non-profit BrightStone is working to raise the final million dollars of a $20 million goal for its new Land of Dreams, a 144-acre campus where adults with special needs can live full-time, while learning life skills and working together.

For more than 20 years the program for adults with autism, brain injuries, and other intellectual challenges has learned computer and life skills, nutrition and exercise classes, and arts and crafts, which they create and sell to help support BrightStone’s mission.

The first phase of the Land of Dreams project opened November 2022.

Two residential homes are currently under construction.

Future plans for the campus include an equestrian center, gym, and a chapel.

On Thursday, a BrightStone student taught News4 evening anchor Tracy Kornet how to box brownies, as part of a video project to help share BrightStone’s story with the community.

To help support or learn more about BrightStone, go to brightstone.org

For past stories on BrightStone, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRbBVodbfVs

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Texas angler lands giant bass, but is the photo misleading?

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A Texas angler landed one heck of a largemouth bass this week while fishing at Lake Nacogdoches.

It was so massive that biologics borrowed the bass for use in a selective breeding program to benefit statewide fisheries.

But before anyone gets too excited, the bass caught by Jack York is not as big as it appears to be in an image shared Monday by the Toyota ShareLunker Program – Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Top comment: “Camera man… ‘HOLD IT AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN TO ME! THIS FISH LOOKS AS BIG AS A GROWN MAN! PERFECT!’ ”

Another observation: “I’m gonna need this photographer to take my fish pics! That is a giant but geeze in this pic it looks bigger than Jack. Good job!”

Ribbing aside, the bass weighed 13.51 pounds, certainly worthy of the Legacy Class ShareLunker designation.

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Legacy bass must weigh at least 13 pounds to become part of the breeding program, which takes place January through March each year. The fish are encouraged to spawn at a hatchery and their offspring are stocked around the state.

Tom Nilssen with 13.52-pound largemouth bass. Photo: TPWD

This

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