Also, GM's big return to Europe is centered around the Cadillac Lyriq and Toyota's shareholders are skeptical of all its lobbying, all in today's Morning Shift.
Cincinnati Magazine
April 28, 2021
I recently moved here from Detroit and was surprised to learn that Cincinnati is in the Eastern Time Zone. With all the other things I’m adjusting to, I didn’t expect that. Has Cincinnati always been EST? It’s on my mind now that we’ve moved the clocks ahead. —TIME IS ON MY OTHER SIDE
Illustration by Lars Leetaru
DEAR SIDE:
Humanity has been arguing about time since, well, the beginning of time. Even after progressing past the sundial, pendulum, and Fitbit, we continue to bicker over setting the clock. And Cincinnatians have an extra burden: endlessly reminding people that, no, we do not live in the Central Time Zone. At one time we did, but that was back in the 1880s after Big Railroad tried to cram Time Zones down Americans’ throats. Official Cincinnati Time, though, stubbornly remained off by 22 minutes. Try scheduling
Pedestrians walk past the spheres near the Amazon campus in downtown Seattle, May 10, 2018. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
As a concept, antitrust may seem fairly simple. Companies that get too big and abuse their powers to unfairly eliminate competition, and maybe drive up prices, must be brought to heel, either through regulation or a breakup.
But the reality is not so simple, and the history of trustbusting in the United States has been uneven at best. Still, the government has managed to employ this power to interfere in the market to manage Big Oil, Big Railroad and Big Steel. Now it looks as if those powers will again be used, this time against Big Tech, in particular on Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon.