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As feds stand down, states choose between wetlands protections or rollbacks

2 years 7 months ago

For 200 miles, the Wabash River forms the border between Illinois and Indiana as it meanders south to the Ohio River. On the Illinois side, lawmakers are scrambling to pass a bill that would protect wetlands from development and pollution, in order to safeguard water quality and limit flooding. But in Indiana, state policymakers hastily […]

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Alex Brown

Hard freeze in rural Missouri likely Tuesday and Wednesday

2 years 7 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- Beneficial rainfall has ended and now cold, gusty winds are settling in. Tuesday will see nearly steady temperatures in the 30s to lower 40s. Wind chills will be in the 30s all day with wind gusts to about 25 mph. Tonight and tomorrow night will both see temperatures near freezing, with patchy [...]
Chris Higgins

Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out

2 years 7 months ago
Right after Elon took over Twitter, we published what we had hoped would be a useful “speed run” through the content moderation learning curve that most platforms figure out along the way. We’ve seen other “free speech!” platforms learn these basic lessons, though not always quickly enough to survive. The basic idea is that no […]
Mike Masnick

Embattled Missouri House speaker running for new office

2 years 7 months ago
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher, fending off an ethics investigation into allegations of misconduct, announced Tuesday he will drop out of the lieutenant governor’s race and instead seek the GOP nomination for secretary of state.  The announcement comes on the final day candidates can file to run for the August primary. And it also comes the same day as the House Ethics Committee will hold its fifth hearing of the legislative session in its ongoing investigation of Plocher, a Des Peres…
Jason Hancock

Why is Truth Social trading at 100 times its actual value?

2 years 7 months ago
How much is Donald Trump's social media company, Truth Social, really worth? It's never made money, so you can't judge it that way. But lots of startup companies are unprofitable in their early years, and venture capitalists figure out values for them anyway. The most common alternative is to look at net sales. Generally speaking, ...continue reading "Why is Truth Social trading at 100 times its actual value?"
Kevin Drum