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Beware

2 years 5 months ago
It is the Ides of March. If you happen to have any friends named Brutus—or anything else vaguely Latinesque—you might want to stay home today.
Kevin Drum

Congress Lets The FCC’s Spectrum Auction Authority Lapse For No Good Reason

2 years 5 months ago
Last week, Congress failed to shake off corruption and buckled to a telecom industry’ smear campaign to scuttle the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC. This week, the government body shifted from corruption to ordinary incompetence, after it failed to renew the FCC’s Spectrum Auction authority for no coherent reason. The FCC is in […]
Karl Bode

Former St. Louis County police commander Troy Doyle named new Ferguson police chief

2 years 5 months ago
Troy Doyle, a former lieutenant colonel with the St. Louis County Police Department, was named the new police chief of Ferguson Tuesday night. Only KSDK was there as Doyle was approved by a unanimous vote by the city council at a public meeting Tuesday night. He begins his new role as chief on April 1. Former Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall resigned last month. Captain Harry Dilworth has been filling in as interim chief since Feb. 24. McCall was Ferguson's seventh police chief in as many years…
Sam Clancy, Christine Byers, Brent Solomon