Well Connected

A new project by the Center for Public Integrity takes a close look at the telecommunications industry and its regulatory body, the Federal Communications Commission. Visitors to OpenAirWaves.org will find the CPI's "first-of-its-kind, 65,000 record, searchable database containing ownership information on virtually every radio station, television station, cable television system and telephone company in America." CPI also looked at FCC travel records. They report that the FCC commissioners "have been showered with nearly $2.8 million in travel and entertainment