by Stephanie Kraft | Feb 2, 2012 | News
PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, and SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, bills designed to crack down on piracy on the Internet, were sent back to the drawing boards recently following an outcry from Internet providers—including large...
by James Heflin | Feb 2, 2012 | News
You’ve probably heard by now that many corners of the Internet (and at least one major thoroughfare, Google) went totally dark or self-censored part of their content on Jan. 18 in protest of two proposed laws, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 2, 2012 | News
Look, some of us need a no more elaborate pitch to buy Girl Scout cookies than those two glorious words: Thin Mints. But if you like a side of social justice with your Peanut Butter Patties, chew on this: by loading up on the sweet stuff this year, you are also...
by Our Readers | Feb 2, 2012 | News
Ovation for Newt Ashes always fly back into the face of the one who blows them. During the Republican presidential debate held in South Carolina on Monday, January 16, Newton Leroy Gingrich (at long, long last) abruptly and pointedly demolished an attempt by a...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 2, 2012 | News
In late November, as they prepared to head into recess, members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed, with minimal fanfare, a bill that would dramatically change the commonwealth’s criminal justice system. Formally, the bill is called “An...
