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| Nov 3, 2023 | Health | GOP states embrace Uber, Lyft to take low-income patients to medical appointments | Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS)
This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments.
It’s a bid to improve overall health i... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Jim Obergefell's Supreme Court case helped legalize same-sex marriage 7 years ago. Now, he could become the only openly gay member of Ohio's state House. | Jim Obergefell speaks with voters at a park in Sandusky, Ohio on July 18, 2022. AP Photo/Nick Cammett
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationwide 7 years ago.
Now, Jim Obergefell — th... |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Renter activists crashed a DC landlords conference to protest 'corrupt greed' and rising rents | Renters protesting at the National Multifamily Housing Council’s annual fall conference. Alonso Hernandez
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More than 100 protestors gathered at the National Multifamily Housing Council's annual fall conference.
They demanded that ... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Gilead faces criticism for donations to state senators who backed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in Florida | There was a curious dichotomy underlying the outcry over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that passed the Florida Senate last week: Nine of the 22 lawmakers who voted in favor of the legislation had received donations from Gilead Sciences (GILD), t... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | Emails obtained by Insider show how California’s top education official helped a private school for wealthy Chinese kids | Former Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson greets his supporters during an election night watch party at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Andrew Seng/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via G... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Election Day is here. These are 11 things to know about the billions of dollars spent to buy your vote. | Hardcore partisans, special interests, and shadowy figures have all tried to twist the race for the White House and control of Congress to their financial advantage.
It's a dizzying scene, and even the experts can get confused. "No rat... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Column:: CFPB acting Director Mick Mulvaney seems to think his job includes taking potshots at Elizabeth Warren | “I am the acting director of the CFPB,” Mick Mulvaney told a group of bankers Tuesday, “something that’s apparently keeping Elizabeth Warren up late at night, which doesn’t bother me at all.”
His audience, a Washington gathering of credit u... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | New Protectionist Virginia Law Would Keep Residents From Better Broadband | For years now we’ve noted how incumbent ISPs have written and purchased protectionist state laws in roughly twenty states. These laws were quietly passed by AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and other large ISPs as a response to communities that b... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | How Mylan cornered the consumer epinephrine market | “It was just sort of organic,” said Huff about carrying the bill. “It seemed like we oughta do better to protect these kids.”
Mylan, the company that raked in $1 billion last year for the EpiPen, takes credit for passing “legislation in 48 ... |
| Sep 6, 2016 | The drug pricing crusader at the center of one of the nastiest fights of the election season | LOS ANGELES — There’s nobody the drug companies are spending more to fight than Michael Weinstein.
And Weinstein takes pride in their hostility. “That’s a badge of honor,” he said. A longtime HIV/AIDS activist, Weinstein is the driving forc... |
| May 4, 2016 | Muni broadband limits tucked into totally unrelated traffic bill in Mo. | The Missouri State Capitol.
Missouri House of Representatives reader comments 90 with 61 posters participating
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| Feb 26, 2016 | AT&T gave $62K to lawmakers months before vote to limit muni broadband | AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.
AT&T reader comments 76 with 60 posters participating
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A Missouri legislative committee last week approved a bill that would limit the s... |
| Jan 23, 2016 | The Repeat Political Madness Of Never-Ending Crypto Wars | What is it with politicians and encryption? There are now two bills in different U.S. states, one in California and one in New York, proposing that smartphones sold in the state must be able to be decrypted on demand by either their manufac... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | How States Are Fighting To Keep Towns From Offering Their Own Broadband | Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease the way for cities to become Internet service providers. So-called municipal broadband is already a reality in a few towns, often providing Internet access and faster se... |
| Jan 26, 2015 | Comcast ghostwrote pro-merger letters that politicians sent to FCC | reader comments 84 with 65 posters participating
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Comcast has been supported by many politicians in its bid to acquire Time Warner Cable, but the testimonials from elected o... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Municipal broadband could be restricted yet again, this time in Missouri | The Missouri State Capitol.
Missouri House of Representatives reader comments 89 with 46 posters participating
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| Sep 19, 2014 | AT&T’s friends: Meet the companies and politicians “enthusiastic” about DirecTV buy | reader comments 53 with 32 posters participating
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Customers, consumer advocacy groups, and small cable companies are speaking out against AT&T’s proposed purchase of Dir... |
| Sep 1, 2014 | How big telcos are smothering city-run broadband services | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Was... |
| Sep 1, 2014 | How big telcos are smothering city-run broadband services | This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
Janice Bowling, a 67-year-old grandmother and Republican state senator from rural Tennessee... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | How big telecom smothers city-run broadband | reader comments 166 with 84 posters participating
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| Aug 22, 2014 | Comcast donations help company secure support for Time Warner Cable merger | 401(k) 2012 reader comments 100 with 76 posters participating
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Comcast’s proposed $45.2-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable has been criticized by angry customers, cons... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Broadband consultant a ‘smart start’ as city explores expanding fiber network [VIDEO] | The City of Baltimore’s pursuit of a strategy for broadband fiber continues, specifically beefing up existing broadband infrastructure through an overbuild of the city’s 25-mile fiber ring.
Baltimore city CIO Chris Tonjes. Photo credit: Gre... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Fund Manager Who Donated To Anti-Gay Marriage Initiative Arrested In Prostitution Sting | Redeem now
Washington County Sheriff's Office
Editor's note, September 29, 2022: James Allan Bisenius' record was expunged in 2017.
An Oregon-based fund-of-funds manager was one of nine men arrested in a prostitution sting last week.
The Or... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | Report spotlights Iowa AG’s campaign contributions from banking industry | Lawyers and lobbyists from the finance, insurance and real estate sectors gave $261,445 to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s re-election campaign in 2010 — 88 times more than the previous decade, according to a report released this week. T... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | OpenGovernment: Government Data with a Social Media Twist | The idea of “open government” got a boost last week with the launch of OpenGovernment.org, a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation. Similar to sibling project OpenCongress, which launched in 2008... |
| Nov 15, 2007 | Politics 2.0 — nowhere to be found | Back around the time of the 2000 election, there were high hopes for political sites built to inform, educate and encourage people to vote.
Netivation.com, which held a public offering, was a much-feted company that bought several promising... |
| DOE head Rick Perry says fossil fuels prevent sexual assault, also doesn’t know what a fossil fuel is | Along with the announcement of the huge tax hike in the new republican tax bill, we have some other astounding ignorance coming out of the titular heads of government in the US today. Rick Perry, who has received over $11.6 million from the... |
| How Mylan cornered the consumer epinephrine market | Thirteen year-old Natalie Giorgi probably didn’t know the name of the company that makes EpiPen. The 2013 death of the Sacramento girl from a peanut-induced allergy attack inspired passage of the California law that made the Mylan product a... |
| Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem | Uvalde and Austin, Texas – At the Nation Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting, thousands of gun enthusiasts loudly applauded Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz as he encouraged the crowd to stand up to liberal politicians whose “real goa... |
| Tesla gets the boot from Michigan, solidifying its state governemnt reputation as the most corrupt | I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You can measure your state government corruption level by how they deal with Tesla. Michigan citizens, your government (yet again) has failed you.
On October 1, the Michigan Automobile Dealers Asso... |