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Robert Reich | Monopoly Power and Market Rigging
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Federal regulators today approved Charter Communications' $65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, thereby allowing the creation of America's second-largest broadband provider with 19.4 million users and the third-largest cable television provider with 17.4 million customers."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Federal regulators today approved Charter Communications' $65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, thereby allowing the creation of America's second-largest broadband provider with 19.4 million users and the third-largest cable television provider with 17.4 million customers."
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Tom Engelhardt | Has the American Age of Decline Begun?
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "'Low-energy Jeb.' 'Little Marco.' 'Lyin' Ted.' 'Crooked Hillary.' Give Donald Trump credit. He has a memorable way with insults. His have a way of etching themselves on the brain."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "'Low-energy Jeb.' 'Little Marco.' 'Lyin' Ted.' 'Crooked Hillary.' Give Donald Trump credit. He has a memorable way with insults. His have a way of etching themselves on the brain."
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Kansas Governor Justifies Kicking 15,000 People off Food Stamps
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "For over five years now, Kansas has served as an economic policy experiment for anti-tax, small-government conservatives. Their lab work is costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars, crippling public service budgets, and making life harder for low-income families without reducing the state's poverty rate at all."
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Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "For over five years now, Kansas has served as an economic policy experiment for anti-tax, small-government conservatives. Their lab work is costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars, crippling public service budgets, and making life harder for low-income families without reducing the state's poverty rate at all."
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Why Oklahoma Cops Are Returning $53,000 to a Christian Band, an Orphanage and a Church
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
Ingraham writes: "On Monday, I wrote about a strange civil forfeiture case out of Oklahoma, in which Muskogee County sheriff's deputies seized over $53,000 in cash from a Burmese Christian rock band, a church in Omaha and an orphanage in Thailand following a traffic stop over a busted tail light."
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Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
Ingraham writes: "On Monday, I wrote about a strange civil forfeiture case out of Oklahoma, in which Muskogee County sheriff's deputies seized over $53,000 in cash from a Burmese Christian rock band, a church in Omaha and an orphanage in Thailand following a traffic stop over a busted tail light."
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In Baltimore, Hopes of Turning Abandoned Properties Into Affordable Homes
Pam Fessler, NPR
Fessler writes, "Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods have long struggled with a lack of decent housing and thousands of abandoned homes. Things recently took a turn for the worse: Five vacant houses in the city collapsed in high winds several weeks ago, in one case killing a 69-year-old man who was sitting in his car."
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Pam Fessler, NPR
Fessler writes, "Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods have long struggled with a lack of decent housing and thousands of abandoned homes. Things recently took a turn for the worse: Five vacant houses in the city collapsed in high winds several weeks ago, in one case killing a 69-year-old man who was sitting in his car."
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Criticism Grows Over UK's Refusal to Take In 3,000 Child Refugees
Middle East Eye
Excerpt: "The UK's governing Conservative Party has come under fire after its MPs struck down a parliamentary bill calling for 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees, left stranded in other parts of Europe, to be let into the UK."
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Middle East Eye
Excerpt: "The UK's governing Conservative Party has come under fire after its MPs struck down a parliamentary bill calling for 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees, left stranded in other parts of Europe, to be let into the UK."
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You're More Likely to See an Oil Industry Ad Than a Climate Report on CNN
Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist
Chiang-Waren writes: "Planet Earth is shattering climate records left and right. But don't expect CNN viewers to know that. Over two recent weeks, the network aired more oil industry advertising than climate change coverage - nearly five times more."
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Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist
Chiang-Waren writes: "Planet Earth is shattering climate records left and right. But don't expect CNN viewers to know that. Over two recent weeks, the network aired more oil industry advertising than climate change coverage - nearly five times more."
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