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BY HANNAH WEINBERGER / CROSSCUT Originally published Feb. 10, 2021 on Crosscut.com Seattle’s technology billionaires are many things: innovators, visionaries, philanthropists and some less polite descriptors, depending on whom you ask. But thanks to some scrupulous digging by industry journal The Land Report, which tracks land ownership across the country, we now know that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has another feather in his multi hyphenated career cap: America’s Top Private Owner of Farmland. Gates has spent years quietly diversifying his $129 billion fortune through asset manag...

February 15, 2021 - 4:20pm The board of the far-right social media app Parler has fired its CEO and put the platform in the hands of interim CEO Mark Meckler and right-wing British political operative Matthew Richardson, along with board chair and majority owner Rebekah Mercer. Meckler, whom Mercer recruited for Parler, is a well known right-wing activist who co-founded the Tea Party Patriots and is president and CEO of the Convention of States Foundation and its partner Convention of States Action, organizations pushing for a constitutional convention to radically rewrite America's foun...

Bill Gates is investing big in American farmland The Microsoft co-founder’s personal investments mirror a growing trend amongst the uber-wealthy. By Hannah Weinberger, Crosscut Share: FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2018, file photo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda take part in an AP interview in Kirkland, Wash. Bill Gates is starting a new fight against systemic poverty in America, as his private foundation announces millions of dollars toward unspecified initiatives ranging from data projects to funding for community activists. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File...

February 25, 2020 - 11:36am The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution calling for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution on February 18  by a 60-38 vote, almost entirely along party lines. The measure, Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 77, now heads to the Senate, where its companion, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 57, has yet to move out of committee. If passed, Wisconsin would become the 16 th state to back right-wing efforts to call for a constitutional convention to propose sweeping amendments to the Constitution to curtail the powers of the federal government. Under Article V of the Consti...

Our weekly selection of links across the web. Scot McKnight Image: Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash It’s been very cold around here, and our walks involved several layers and some hats and some scarves and some strong, warm boots. But it’s refreshing too. And always good to arrive back home into the warmth. Sorry to read of the passing of Hank Aaron. A friend of mine played a year with Hank and they called him “Sup” as in “superstar.” He was that good. ATLANTA (NewsNation Now) — American baseball legend Henry “Hank” Aaron, who became one of the sport’s most ic...