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Verizon, AT&T Face ‘High Priority’ EPA Inquiry Over Lead In Telecom Cables

2 years 9 months ago
While the telecom industry did manage to successfully defang U.S. consumer protection regulators for the better part of the last decade, they’re still facing some notable headwinds. Broadband growth has dramatically slowed, cable TV customers are leaving in droves, and while they are getting a ton of new subsidies via the infrastructure bill, a lot of that money is […]
Karl Bode

Radius: The legacy of America’s nuclear weapons testing program

2 years 9 months ago

Americans are typically told the story of the scientists who built the atomic bomb as an intellectual race for the world’s most powerful weapon during wartime.  More than 100 atmospheric weapons tests were conducted in the U.S. and its territories between 1945 and 1962. It resulted in widespread radioactive fallout across much of the U.S., […]

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Marisa Demarco

Scuba-Loving Sheriff Leaves Missouri County High and Dry

2 years 9 months ago
On December 20, about a week before he jetted off to an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, Sheriff Chris Heitman made a stop at City Hall in Belle, Missouri, to execute a search warrant. Heitman is the sheriff of Maries County, population 8,400, about two hours southwest of St. Louis.
Ryan Krull