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they had been stripped of all of their power as elected officials, but at least they still had this one voice, right? now it has been shut down, too. emergency manager put it up on e-bay, exercising absolute, personal, unelected control. over the weekend on e-bay, there were three bids for wbhc. the initial asking price was $5,000. and then there was a bid for 5100 and 5200 and then the listing disappeared. turns out federal law says you can't sell a radio station licensed the way that the overseer was trying to sell it. so this listing on e-bay is against the law. the fcc has to approve any sale of a radio license, even a tiny station like benton harbor's. we know from talking to the emergency manager over the last few days, he still thinks he's selling the town's radio station. under federal rules, it can only go to a nonprofit or a local government. local government and the emergency manager guy is, himself, a one-man local government now. who else can it go to?