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What Is a Small Business, Anyway?
This is surprisingly complicated, and may be changing in significant ways soon.
Sep 2
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Pat Garofalo
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How Corporate Consolidation Ruins Local Economic Development
Scarcity creates desperation.
Aug 27
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Pat Garofalo
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Why Politicians Love Corporate Subsidies
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Aug 19
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Pat Garofalo
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How to Hold a Sham Public Hearing
Jul 31, 2025
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Pat Garofalo
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Meet the States Fighting Private Equity’s Health Care Destruction
Aug 6, 2025
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Sumitra Rajagopal
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Welcome to the Twilight of Big Tax Prep
Jun 5, 2024
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Pat Garofalo
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The Secret That's Driving Up Highway Costs
Sep 11, 2024
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Pat Garofalo
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Dystopian Pricing Tactics: A Primer
Jan 29
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Pat Garofalo
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The Cult of Data Centers
Jan 13
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Study Shows Corporate Subsidies Only Create Jobs for Lobbyists
More tax handouts, more lobbying jobs in state capitols.
Jul 29
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Maxine Adelson
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Ban Data Center Subsidies Once and For All
The case for them no longer exists, if it ever did.
Jul 23
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Pat Garofalo
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The Great AI News Heist
The latest turn in Big Tech's theft of journalists' labor.
Jul 13
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Pat Garofalo
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Michigan's Mega-Deals Are a Warning to Everyone
Billions of dollars for only hundreds of jobs.
Jul 1
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Pat Garofalo
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What a Data Center Moratorium Can Buy
PLUS: Another centralized price-fixing scheme.
Jun 25
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Maxine Adelson
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Why Secret Gambling Money Is Pouring Into State and Local Elections
Dark money in, legalized gambling out.
Jun 17
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Pat Garofalo
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Algorithmic Price-Fixing in Health Insurance, Explained
Does every industry have a centralized price-rigging scheme?
Jun 5
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Pat Garofalo
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