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- Headlight Flashing Faces Free Speech Test in Florida
- Free speech: UCSB reimburses College Republicans
- Online sales tax bill splits community
- Chinese military mobilises cybermilitias
- Town Orders Teen To Dismantle Haunted House Or Face Fines
- Harrisburg, Pa., Votes to File for Bankruptcy rather than take Gov’t Stimulus
| Headlight Flashing Faces Free Speech Test in Florida Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT
Erich Campbell thought he was being helpful. The Florida Highway patrolman thought he was being obnoxious and disrespectful and gave him a $101 fine. "I couldn't believe it," said Campbell as he paced next to Veterans Highway in Tampa, Fla. "I was in complete disbelief." Campbell's crime? He flashed his headlights to alert oncoming cars after passing that patrolman's speed trap. "It's something I do," he explained. “I don't think it should be against the law.” In December 2009, the patrolman was set up on the southbound side of Route 589 near the Tampa International Airport. In a recording of the stop, the officer told Campbell he had seen his lights flashing. "It's illegal," he said before giving him a ticket that read "improper flashing of high-beams." To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/12/taking-liberties-bright-lights-big-trouble/ |
| Free speech: UCSB reimburses College Republicans Posted: 13 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT By Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle Under pressure from a conservative free-speech group, University of California officials have reimbursed campus Republicans in Santa Barbara for hosting a speaker who claims Muslim extremists and left-wingers are infiltrating the classroom. The UC Santa Barbara student government balked at the Republican group’s request for $1,800 to pay for conservative author David Horowitz’s appearance, but school officials eventually acknowledged their legal duty to provide equal funding for speakers regardless of their views, said a spokesman for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. “You can’t make a viewpoint-related decision about speakers” at a state-run college, the foundation’s Adam Kissel said Wednesday. He said the U.S. Supreme Court defined the constitutional standards in 2000 when it ruled against students at University of Wisconsin who objected to use of part of their student fees for political activities they disliked. The unanimous decision said such fees are legal as long as a school uses “viewpoint neutrality” in its funding decisions. The Santa Barbara episode comes in the wake of another controversy over politics and free speech on campus, the criminal convictions of 10 UC Irvine students last month for disrupting a public meeting by heckling the Israeli ambassador during a speech in February 2010. To read more, visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BA7D1LGVT3.DTL |
| Online sales tax bill splits community Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:55 AM PDT By MICHELLE QUINN | Politico.com A new online sales tax bill is splitting the business community: Brick-and-mortar retailers say it would end an unfair leg up for Internet shopping sites, but online retailers such as eBay argue that it would be a big drag on small businesses. Dubbed the Marketplace Equity Act, the bill sponsored by Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Steve Womack (R-Ark.) would give states authority to compel online retailers to collect sales tax. The bill differs from the Main Street Fairness Act, an online sales tax bill introduced over the summer by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), in that it would give states flexibility in how they craft their tax systems to conform with the law. That's something some state tax officials such as Betty Yee, a member of California's Board of Equalization, approve of. To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65863.html |
| Chinese military mobilises cybermilitias Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:52 AM PDT By Kathrin Hille, FT.com Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software. But many of its 500 employees in Hengshui, just south-west of Beijing, have a second job. Since 2005 Nanhao has been home to a cybermilitia unit organised by the People's Liberation Army. "All staff under the age of 30 belong to the unit," said Bai Guoliang, Nanhao vice-president. It is unclear what exactly the unit does, but according to a local government announcement when it was set up, it consisted of two groups tasked with cyberattack and cyberdefence. The Nanhao operation is one of thousands set up by the Chinese military over the past decade in technology companies and universities around the country. These units form the backbone of the country's internet warfare forces, increasingly seen as a serious threat at a time of escalating global cybertensions. To read more, visit: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/33dc83e4-c800-11e0-9501-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1afoeUXEh |
| Town Orders Teen To Dismantle Haunted House Or Face Fines Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT From CBS San Francisco FREMONT – Halloween is still weeks away, but already a popular Haunted House in Fremont is being forced to close its doors after the city called it a public safety hazard. For the past seven years, Chris Stelle has transformed his parents backyard into an elaborate haunted house for Halloween. Thousands of friends and neighbors have been through the annual freak show. But this year, the city of Fremont got wise to the house, constructed mostly out of wood pallets, and declared it a safety hazard. "We just don't want to stop," said Stelle. "We want to continue on with the spirit of Halloween and make people happy." Stelle is hoping to move the entire house to a local church, if he can get a permit from the city. To read more, visit: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/10/12/fremont-orders-teen-to-dismantle-haunted-house-over-permit-issue/ |
| Harrisburg, Pa., Votes to File for Bankruptcy rather than take Gov’t Stimulus Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:36 AM PDT
Pennsylvania’s capital city voted to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday as it faced a state takeover, according to media reports. The City Council voted 4-3 to seek bankruptcy protection for Harrisburg, which has a debt burden five times its general-fund budget “because of an overhaul and expansion of a trash-to-energy incinerator that doesn't generate enough revenue,” Bloomberg Businessweek reported. The bankruptcy means the city will lose state aid, but that is better than the proposed recovery plans, Councilwoman Susan Brown-Wilson said, according to Bloomberg. But State Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, a Republican from Dauphin County, where Harrisburg is located, said the council’s vote is against the law. "I have been on the record as saying that bankruptcy is simply not an option. It's illegal under Pennsylvania law, which prohibits third class cities from filing for bankruptcy," Piccola said, according to PennLive.com. To read more, visit: http://nationaljournal.com/economy/harrisburg-pa-votes-to-file-for-bankruptcy-20111012 |
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