By Ethan Barton Democratic presidential hopeful and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley deleted virtually all of the messages from his primary, private email address, leaving constituent complaints and spam in an archive. O’Malley’s official Maryland state government email address was likely linked primarily to an online form for constituent comments, while his private account was…
Congress is currently working through the arduous process of passing a long-overdue reform to patent laws designed to curb the widely known and widely loathed practice known as patent trolling. Or, as those of us with libertarian friends call it, “the reason so many of our friends hate intellectual property.” Patent trolling, for those who…
By Geoffrey Ingersoll Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the D.C.’s law enforcement officers are going to start focusing their efforts on drug suppliers and away from low-level players. “It is my duty to provide the safest and healthiest environment for our residents and visitors. We will do that by innovating and adapting, and providing our public…
By Michael Bastasch President Barack Obama is preparing to unleash a series of “executive actions” aimed at boosting the green energy industry as part of the president’s global warming agenda. Obama is launching a “Clean Energy Impact Investment Center” at the Energy Department to “make information about energy and climate programs … accessible and more…
A video that’s going viral shows an Ohio man recording his ex-wife brutally beating his children. The Inquisitr reported that the father recorded the abuse instead of stopping it because he had previously attempted to report her, but the police didn’t take him seriously. From Nathan Francis of the Inquisitr: “If I lose another kid…
By R. Brownell Texas Governor Greg Abbott has just signed into law a bill that will create the nation’s first state level gold depository, but in order to start, Texas will repatriate $1 billion in gold from the Federal Reserve. “Today I signed HB 483 to provide a secure facility for the State of Texas,…
By: Laura Meyers A restaurant in Pittsburgh banned tipping and decided instead to pay servers a salary with extensive benefits. The result? They tripled their profit margin. Bar Marco, founder Bobby Fry, is a progressive entrepreneur with new ideas that are challenging the status quo of restaurant operations. Marco’s restaurant has 26 workers on staff that are…
By Connor D. Wolf Raising the minimum wage will have severe consequences, especially for those working in the restaurant industry, investor rating service Moody’s warned on Thursday. “A higher minimum wage represents a particular challenge for restaurants, which depend heavily on hourly workers,” William Fahy, vice president and senior credit officer for Moody’s, said in a statement. “But…
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Reddit bans ‘Fat People Hate,’ other subreddits under new anti-harassment policy By: Ryan Carrillo PODCAST – Subscribe on iTunes Ellen Pao, CEO of Reddit, or Chairman Pao as some users on Reddit have taken to calling her, put her stamp on the popular website as many feared she would. Yesterday Reddit began banning community forums known…
By Casey Harper Last weekend, Richard Matt and David Sweat broke through steel and brick, crawled through a metal pipe, and came out on the other side free men in the ‘Shawshank’ style breakout that has sparked a massive manhunt. As if that wasn’t interesting enough, it seems like they might have had inside help, allegedly…