Boom Potpourri: FCC Web; False Economic; Pierre Sausage...

Too many tabs on my browser! Let's clear the cache!

1. The FCC is getting ready to announce my next job: digital literacy corps! (That, and a revolution in America's communication network.)
2. Sham recovery? Robert Reich says current GDP growth is a mirage, with the benefits going almost entirely to the fattest cats, leaving us mice still scrambling.
3. Pierre makes the best sausage: The South Dakota Legislature put three dozen bills through the hoghouse this session. One such switch: SB 172 started as a proposal to exempt native and established grasslands from agricultural tax assessment. Senators Jerstad and Merchant morphed it into an amendment of the definition of emission reduction activities that coal-fired plants can exempt from their property tax. From grass to gas....