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The Fast Track grant program is due to expire in August but would be prolonged for seven more years under the legislation that will go to the House.

The artist's paintings will be on display at the Angad Arts Hotel alongside works by Brandon Chavis from March 4 through May 29.

It's just no fun being a giant company aspiring to monopolize repair to boost revenues. On both the state and federal level, a flood of new bills are targeting companies' efforts to monopolize repair by implementing obnoxious DRM, making repair tools and manuals hard to find, bullying independent repair shops (like Apple does), or forcing tractor owners to drive hundreds of miles just to get their tractor repaired (one of John Deere's favorite pastimes). The Biden administration even just got done signing an executive order asking the FTC to tighten up its restrictions on the subject.

This week the list of right to repair legislation jumped by one with the introduction of the "Right to Equitable and Professional Auto Industry Repair" Act (REPAIR Act), which would mandate equitable access to repair tools and tech, boost the FTC's authority to handle consumer complaints, and mandate additional transparency by the auto industry:

"Americans should not be forced to bring their cars to more costly and inconvenient dealerships for repairs when independent auto-repair shops are often cheaper and far more accessible,” said Rep. Rush. “But as cars become more advanced, manufacturers are getting sole access to important vehicle data while independent repair shops are increasingly locked out. The status quo for auto repair is not tenable, and it is getting worse. If the monopoly on vehicle repair data continues, it would affect nearly 860,000 blue-collar workers and 274,000 service facilities."

The auto industry has been particularly obnoxious when it comes to providing independent access to data, tools, and repair manuals for cars with increasingly complicated internal electronics. That's a particular problem when an estimated 70 percent of U.S. cars are serviced by independent repair shops. The industry has also been obnoxious in their attempts to scuttle legislation attempting to address the problem, including running ads in Massachusetts that claimed an expansion of that state's right to repair legislation would only be of benefit to stalkers and sexual predators.

The problem for companies looking to monopolize repair is several fold. One, the harder they try to lock their technologies down, the greater the opposition grows. And that opposition tends to be both broad and bipartisan, ranging from the most fervent of urban Apple fanboys, to the most rural of John Deere tractor owners. This isn't a battle they're likely to win, and while we haven't seen federal legislation on this front passed yet, if the industries continue to push their luck in this space it's only a matter of time.

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President Joe Biden has nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

A whole bunch of people wasted Tuesday talking about technical measures. What technical measures, you might ask? The ones vaguely alluded to in the DMCA. Subsection 512(i) conditions the safe harbors on platforms (more formally called “Online Service Providers,” or OSPs, for the purposes of the DMCA) “accommodat[ing] and […] not interfer[ing] with standard technical […]

U.S. intelligence officials have expressed concerns that Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv could fall to Russia within days, according to multiple reports.

A vehicle lost control on the ice at the Humbert and Washington railroad tracks about 5:40 a.m. on Friday, February 25, 2022. Train traffic was stopped, while the railroad tracks were cleaned. The arms and crossing gates encountered significant damage. There were no injuries reported in the accident.

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U.S. Senators from Missouri and Illinois want the U.S. to go beyond the sanctions against Russia already announced by President Joe Biden. Their comments follow Russia’s decision to invade neighboring Ukraine in what U.S. defense officials describe as the largest European conventional military attack since World War II.

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Americans may be tempted to view the war in Ukraine as an unfortunate, but far away, crisis. As an economist, I know the world is too connected for the U.S. to go unaffected. On Feb. 22, 2022, President Joe Biden warned Americans that a Russian invasion of Ukraine – and U.S. efforts to thwart or punish it – […]

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The story of Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) leaking the Social Security Numbers of hundreds of thousands of current and former teachers and administrators could have been a relatively small story of yet another botched government technology implementation — there are plenty of those every year. But then Missouri Governor Mike Parson […]

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