Arizona School District Tries to Keep Sex Shop Away

“Not in my back yard!” has become almost cliché in many tussles over land use and zoning, including one involving an Arizona school district trying to keep a sex shop from opening near two of its schools. Officials in Phoenix’s Deer Valley School...

Taking on Telemarketing and Junk Mail

Telemarketing and ethics don’t sound like they belong in the same sentence, but believe it or not, those dinner-time interruptions do try to maintain a certain code of ethics. The American Teleservices Association is a nonprofit trade association that represents...

Falwell Trying to Shut Down Web Site Parodies

JerryFalwell.com and JerryFallwell.com were launched last year by Cohn, who was “angered by the evangelist’s tirade blaming the Sept. 11 attacks on feminists, gays and lesbians, among others,” according to Wired.com. The well-known evangelist’s...

Sept. 11 Changed Americans’ Internet Usage

The events of Sept. 11 changed how many Americans live and think, and a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows it also changed the way they use the Internet. Calling the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks the most “cataclysmic events of the Web...