A Philadelphia city councilman is spending $28,000 in taxpayer money 140 characters at a time. The Philadelphia Daily News (http://bit.ly/HTOwa4) reports Councilman Jim Kenney is paying an outside contractor $28,800 to send Twitter and Facebook updates on his behalf. The 53-year-old Kenney says... Read more...
Officers with SEPTA’s transit police have gone on strike following a stalemate in negotiations regarding a new contract. The officers officially went on strike at 2 p.m. SEPTA and the union for the transit have not been able to a settlement regarding a contract. SEPTA officials said con... Read more...
Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose has secured one of the richest shoe endorsement deals in history, a package that could pay him more than $200 million across the remainder of his career, a source told Yahoo! Sports. Rose, the 2011 NBA Most Valuable Player, agreed to a 13-year deal to stay with A... Read more...
Those who snag the iTether app for iOS that allows sharing a 3G connection with a laptop better be prepared for the tethering police to slap them around. Updated: The appearance of the iTether app in the Apple App Store has drawn attention today, as tethering apps don’t as a rule make it into... Read more...
Fathers Incorporated (FI), a national not-for-profit has engaged in responsible fatherhood work on a national and international level since 2004. Recently the organization began a multi-year cause marketing campaign entitled "TIES NEVER BROKEN" to raise the visibility of both Responsible Fatherh... Read more...
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it. ... Read more...
I got this email from a colleague the Tuesday after Memorial Day: “Can’t come in today. Stomach bug.” I’m no detective but—with barbeque season officially starting the day before—a prime suspect immediately jumped to mind: the norovirus, the most common cause of food poisoning in the ... Read more...
The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the u... Read more...
In early November 2010, Google sued the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), claiming the agency unfairly excluded it from a bid for a new hosted e-mail system contract that Microsoft won. On January 5, the U.S. Federal Claims Court temporarily blocked Microsoft from proceeding with the $49.3... Read more...