{"podcast":{"title":"Good News for Lefties | Daily News for Democracy","slug":"good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465","podcast_index_feed_id":6982465,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6256627/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://GoodNewsForLefties.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/672afcb4f39d17cf54d4be4a2915a13e.jpg","author":"Two Squared Media Productions, LLC","episode_count":876,"summary":"Positive, progressive news for democracy daily! Democrats, Leftists, liberals, and democratic socialists welcome. A respite from troubling headlines in difficult times. Sure, read the bad news, but then listen to us! Send good news tips to beowulf@twosquaredmediaproductions.com or 202-656-6271 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy--6256627/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:22:27.318827+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465"},"episode":{"title":"PM News: Rent Fixing Settlement and E-Book Access Reform","slug":"pm-news-rent-fixing-settlement-and-e-book-access-reform","published_at":"2026-06-26T21:00:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/pm-news-rent-fixing-settlement-and-e-book-access-reform","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pm-news-rent-fixing-settlement-and-e-book-access-reform--72675591","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72675591/good_news_for_lefties_pm_062526_mixdown_1.mp3","summary":"Livcor, a major property management company, has been ordered to pay $7 million to Oregon and eight other states for using software that artificially inflated rent prices. In Rhode Island, where new legislation has been passed to protect public libraries from restrictive digital licensing agreements that hinder access to ebooks. Today's Stories: Oregon reaches $7 million settlement with property management company for hiking rent prices | News From The States Rhode Island joins multistate push to rein in e-book licensing costs for libraries | News From The States Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy--6256627/support .","meta_description":"Livcor, a major property management company, has been ordered to pay $7 million to Oregon and eight other states for using software that artificially infl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":422,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/episodes/pm-news-rent-fixing-settlement-and-e-book-access-reform/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-news-for-lefties-daily-news-for-democracy-6982465/pm-news-rent-fixing-settlement-and-e-book-access-reform.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}