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“Reprehensible:” CBD Biz Pushes Back at Bogus Covid Claims

By Dan Mitchell
Apr 24, 2020
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DETROIT - JANUARY 4: Kyle Turley, a retired NFL player, waits to speak as a witness at a U.S. House Judiciary field hearing January 4, 2010 in Detroit, Michigan. The hearing was designed to consider recent steps taken at the professional, college, and high school levels to deal with football brain injuries. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
"WARNING! RIPOFF!" reads the opening of a web site devoted to the alleged chicanery of Wisconsin woman, Stacy Deprey-Purper. Over the past ten years, according to Deprey-Purper’s LinkedIn page, she has led or helped to lead companies in industries as...

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EXCLUSIVE: What happened to Statehouse?

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