The Daily Populous

The bill, which was initially killed in committee through a procedural tactic, is a response to action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) scrapping former President Barack Obama’s net neutrality regulations last year.

Washington state and Oregon already have passed their own net neutrality laws forbidding providers to block or throttle content.

Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R-North Haven, stressed the bill would let the state “come in and tell us how the information highway would be used and marketed.”. »

We're always fascinated by reports of ancient cultures like the Incas who performed great feats of civilization despite the fact the wheel was unknown to them.

It must have been the axle, specifically, that they didn't invent, but it shouldn't take Isaac Newton to think of an axle.

The wheel evidently was familiar to the ancient Mexicans, the only known instance of its having been invented independently of the Sumerian version. »

State representative Kelly Townsend, a Republican from Mesa with a habit of making inflammatory comments, is getting a real education after she asked what a furry was in a Twitter post on Friday morning.

A furry, for the uninitiated, is a member of an internet-fueled subculture centered around an obsession with anthropomorphic animal characters.

She also inexplicably tweeted a photo of coconut-and-lime scented wax cubes with the caption "You know this is all wrong...". »

According to the independent police-monitoring group OVD-Info, some 1,049 people have been detained nationwide in connection with the rally.

Police said the crowd numbered some 1,500 people, but officials routinely downplay the size of opposition protests in Russia.

On the eve of the protests, Navalny supporters were detained by police in several Russian cities including St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Tambov, Kemerovo, and Cheboksary. »