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Opinion: Business reporter calls for transparency in financial status

donal brown November 14, 2011

Transparency is needed as shown by the examples of LinkedIn, Groupon and Demand Media who claimed to be more profitable than they were before they were forced to show their hand and their actual financial data as they prepared to go public, writes James Temple for the San Francisco Chronicle. Temple opposes the bill introduced in U.S. senate that would increase the number of shareholders allowed before a company is  forced to provide complete financial

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Louisiana student sues in federal court after suspended for criticizing teacher on Facebook

donal brown October 25, 2011

A Baton Rouge high school student sued school officials for suspending him and throwing him out of the honors club for criticizing a teacher on Facebook. The student made the comment from his home and removed it before school the next day. The boy’s parents contend that the comment was intended as a joke and created no disturbance at the school so should be protected under the First Amendment. -db From the Courthouse News Service,

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Charges dropped against North Carolina student thrown off campus for criticizing college

donal brown October 17, 2011

The Catawba Valley Community College dropped charges against a student, allowing him back on campus after they suspended him for two semesters for criticizing the college’s aggressive marketing of a debit card company to its students. But the college has yet to change its policy regarding free speech online and is still requiring the student to notify the college when using computers on campus. -db From a commentary for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

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Coverage of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ growing

donal brown October 13, 2011

Media coverage of the protests on Wall Street in New York City is picking up steam four weeks after people began to camp out near the site of their protests. Increased media coverage has seemed to provide the movement with some legitimacy even as opinions of the protests vary. Protests are now planned in locations across the country. -db From The New York Times, October 12, 2011, by Brian Stelter. Full story

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Student punished for criticizing college deal with debit card company

donal brown October 13, 2011

A North Carolina college student was thrown out of a classroom and barred from campus after he went on Facebook to criticize the college for its marketing of a debit card company to students. “CVCC not only must reinstate Marc Bechtol, but also must revise its unconstitutional policy,” FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel said. “When criticism of the college’s financial partnership can get a student suspended and banned from campus, CVCC has caused

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