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"Supporters also note that the injunctions are narrowly constructed to cover potential illegal activity, including harassment and conspiracy to commit future crimes."
"Judge Johnson's order in the Sureno matter prohibits members from "associating, standing, sitting, walking, driving, bicycling, gathering, or appearing anywhere in public view" with other named gang members at the Cinco de Mayo event. The order contains exceptions related to school or church attendance by these members...
I fail to see how someone stating the obvious has any significance. Suspension of disbelief is required to enjoy any theater, including political theater. That doesn't always need to preclude living in reality. Its obvious to anyone with any sense that, in the real world outside the theater, Franken is likely going to be the next Senator from Minnesota.
What difference does it make? Does anyone seriously doubt that the US Senate is going to seat Franken if the State Supreme Court rules in his favor? The Democrats would like nothing better than for Senate Republicans to try to shut down the Senate in order to prevent an elected Senator from being seated. Its time to stop chewing this bone.
"Comcast does own the wire that brings it all to our house. "
That wire is in a public right-of-way. Legacy technologies are becoming one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, threats to the future of our economy. Industries are doing everything possible to use regulation to protect their existing business models against disruptive technologies.
The phone and cable companies are opposing public investment up-to-date fiber optic networks because they would compete with their out...
"I guess this shows Fox9 is not only amoral, but inane"
Tthe claim that they were going to ask parents isn't "inane". They aren't that stupid. It is an obvious lie.
But this is just stupid, not dangerous. Kids do get asked for directions and they mostly know enough to keep their distance. Of course, they wouldn't show any of those kids on the evening news. I am sure they would at least get some footage they could cut to make it look like a kid might have been in danger. With a...
If you assume that there has been a violation of a voter's equal protection by the different standards, doesn't that violation apply to EVERY statewide election in the last cycle. Whether someone's vote would have changed the outcome doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
It seems to me we have allowed the candidates to claim a much larger role in the process of counting ballots than is appropriate. They have continued to treat the recount as if it was a part of their campaign...
Goldman Sachs provides a pretty good case study of how the financial system has worked to the benefit of all those ivy league bankers.
Goldman was in the business of manufacturing AAA rated bonds from mortgages. They sold those securities, also known as CDO's, to investors who wanted a better return than they could get on top rated corporate and government securities. The Fed's low interest rates only made the CDO's more enticing.
The result was the tidal wave of money pouring...
"Could anything be more predictable and less helpful than this"
A media report on either one?
These things are entirely creations of the news media. They wouldn't be doing these "news conferences" if they didn't think you and your colleagues would report on them. They are holding them at the capitol because they know there are a lot of news media there with time on their hands.
"various boards of directors decided that instead of adequately protecting the Monitor, they would spend members' contributions on other ventures,"
How would the money have been better spent on propping up an anachronism? As you point out, their real problem is a shrinking church membership. The newspaper was always a side business and it is hardly one that looks to the future.
If the CSM is going to survive, it is by building an audience for high quality journalism. The...
Theres seems to be this willful ignoring of something everyone knows, newspapers are an advertising business. They were the original model for most online businesses. They gave away the news and manufactured an audience that they sold to their advertising customers.
Newspapers are still creating an audience, it is just worth less and less money every day. Part of that is that online audiences are worth less than print audiences. Part of that is that there is a lot more competition....