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One More Time With Feeling: The GOP Never Seriously Supported ‘Antitrust Reform’ Or Monopoly Busting

2 years 4 months ago
For the last few years, press and policy circles were absolutely dominated by talk about how there was an amazing “new, bipartisan coalition” of folks interested in “reining in ‘Big Tech’,” meaningfully checking corporate power, and finally embracing competent “antitrust reform.” The problem: it was largely all bullshit. The GOP in particular, which has, for […]
Karl Bode

Mayor Tishaura Jones vows modern city government, pledges incremental progress that 'won't happen overnight'

2 years 4 months ago
When St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones took the stage for her second State of the City address on Tuesday night, many public officials, government workers, lobbyists and supporters in the crowd at Saint Louis University expected her to talk about her first two years in office. Instead, Jones began her remarks turning back the clock nearly six decades. "On Oct. 12, 1964, two days before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for about 45 minutes to an integrated audience…
Mark Maxwell