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Another attorney general is boarding the Big Tech antitrust lawsuit train: Washington, DC, Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Amazon for engaging in anticompetitive acts that he says have raised prices and stifled innovation.
The complaint accuses Amazon of abusing its market position by requiring, in practice, that third-party sellers offer their products for the same price that they sell them elsewhere. This has raised the price of goods overall, the complaint says, which means DC residents are paying more than they otherwise would.
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Governor Ron DeSantis met with Southwest Florida business leaders and Captains for Clean Water in Fort Myers, Wednesday, to discuss the growing threat from a toxic blue-green algae outbreak in Lake Okeechobee and red tide that continues to plague the region s Gulf coast. The
News-Press reports, DeSantis is urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to create a new system operating manual for Lake Okeechobee with a focus on sending water south during the winter dry season in order to create more capacity during the rainy season.
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Mark Arnold, Telecommunications Director for Kutztown, poses for a portrait in front of the historic train station in Kutztown, Pa. on Friday, April 23, 2021. President Joe Biden s $2 trillion infrastructure plan aims to expand internet access by building more publicly-owned broadband networks. Kutztown runs one of 200 city-wide broadband networks across the country that offer internet service. (HEATHER KHALIFA/The Phildadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
Biden wants local governments to provide broadband internet. Could they compete with Comcast and Verizon?
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The rural borough of Kutztown, Pa., couldn’t convince companies to bring faster internet to its community. So the town, about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia, built its own broadband network.
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