Month: December 2012
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How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
By Cora Currier
ProPublica
In a natural disaster or other emergency, one of the first things you’re likely to reach for is your cellphone. Landlines are disappearing. More than 30 percent of American households now rely exclusively on cellphones. Despite that, cell carriers have successfully pushed back against rules on what they have to do in a disaster. -
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Fight over the huge estate of a 1950s rock ‘n’ roll dance party host twists through Broward court
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
Before he built Fort Lauderdale-based Grant Communications, the late Milt Grant hosted a popular 1950s television show for teenagers with guests like Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Harry Belafonte. Today, his heirs are fighting in Broward Circuit Court over a fortune worth as much as $58 million.
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