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Trump tech appointees point to a deregulated industry, tech players say

1 year 6 months ago
President-elect Donald Trump’s recent appointments and cabinet nominees are pointing to a four-year stint of deregulation in the tech industry, and lots of potential for competitive growth within the industry and globally, tech executives predict. Trump has made a handful of recent selections, both to existing positions, like chair of the Federal Trade Commission and […]
Paige Gross

Congress exploring expansion of sports betting in Illinois, elsewhere

1 year 6 months ago
(The Center Square) – Illinois is one of 38 states that have legalized sports betting, and now Congress is getting involved. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday entitled “America’s High-Stakes Bet on Legalized Sports Gambling.” Committee Chair Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, said while sports leagues once opposed sports betting, leagues, franchises and networks now partner with betting companies and have integrated gambling into sporting events and…
Kevin Bessler

Not Even Sesame Street Is Safe From David Zaslav And Time Warner Discovery Incompetence

1 year 6 months ago
We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambit by these companies to dominate streaming TV, wound up being a very expensive act of seppuku by over-compensated executives clearly out of […]
Karl Bode

Missouri anti-abortion officials lied to multiple courts (and voters) about Amendment 3

1 year 6 months ago
You don’t argue one thing in a lawsuit and the opposite thing in a different lawsuit.  It undermines the integrity of the judicial system. And it’s unfair. And yet, as I predicted, Attorney General Andrew Bailey has completely flip flopped on his interpretation of Amendment 3 — the ballot initiative that Missouri voters just approved […]
Bridgette Dunlap