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Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by beamatronic on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:01PM (#23420433)
Didn’t anyone loudly proclaim the conflict of interest?
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Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by Analemma_ on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:03PM (#23420465)
Most likely nobody knows. This is unfortunately what happens when local newspapers disappear; there's no one else around to discover this stuff.
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Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets by Loughla on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:55PM (#23421020)
This is the answer. Local media is owned by two families, one of which sits on the board.

It's small town politics at its absolute finest.

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