Rep. David Cicilline, Democratic chairman of a House Antitrust Subcommittee, and Rep. Ken Buck, the panel's ranking Republican, said Friday they are working together on five new bills aiming to crack down on large technology companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
In the name of protecting journalism and media diversity, Congress has come up with a bizarre scheme: an antitrust law carve-out that allows media companies to collude and form cartels.
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Iowa Newspaper Association
June 9, 2021
Google and Facebook stack the deck against newspapers and broadcasters by refusing to compensate publishers for the work their journalists produce.
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Des Moines Register
Just as Iowa is a state of small towns, it’s a state boasting an extraordinary number of small but widely read newspapers more than 250.
That’s No. 3 in the nation on a per capita basis. Most are weeklies delivering news about the city council, local businesses and high school sports to readers in their town or a cluster of neighboring towns. They’re part of what keeps a town vibrant, providing jobs and connecting the community with shared stories of hardship and celebration.
CHATHAM In its preamble to the town meeting warrant, the Finance Committee praised town officials for tackling projects this year to help what it called “the quiet parts of town.”
These are chronic problems that have consistently taken a back seat to major municipal projects like wastewater and shoreside infrastructure.
Saturday s town meeting, at noon at Veterans Field, will address Issues including affordable housing, childcare, the need for a new senior center, have a quiet constituency even as the problems persisted and the need deepened.
Several affordable housing articles
Fueled in part by urban dwellers seeking refuge on Cape from the COVID-19 pandemic, home prices on Cape Cod, and particularly in Chatham, saw dramatic increases in the first four months of this year. Chatham led the way with a 74.5% increase in the median sales price for a single family home, up from $735,500 in 2020 to nearly $1.3 million in 2021.