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Time Inc., one of the world’s leading media companies, announced today that it is now accepting bitcoin through an integration with Coinbase. Consumers can now pay for digital and print subscriptions of Fortune, Health, This Old House and print subscriptions of Travel + Leisure using bitcoin.

Time Inc. reaches more than 130 million consumers each month across multiple platforms. With this integration, we’re helping the company further engage and expand its audience by providing consumers with a convenient, secure and fast payment method for subscriptions.
We believe this is an important step in helping the publishing industry understand and explore new business …read more

Cleveland Heights, Ohio– Samuel Taylor was almost to his home when Cleveland Heights Officer William Robinson pulled this father-to-be over and held him at gun point with his finger on the trigger. The man was driving 38 in a 25mph zone, only 13 mph over the speed limit, to get home to his wife who was in labor after a high-risk pregnancy.
When the officer attempted to pull Taylor over, he slowed down and put on his emergency lights, to indicate that there was an emergency. Taylor then turned onto his street and did not pull over until he …read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Reed v Town of Gilbert, 13-502, on January 12, 2015. This is not an election law case, but it is a case involving the First Amendment, and all First Amendment decisions have some impact on election law. The issue in this case is a town ordinance that bans many(More)… …read more

It appears that this is the number of votes received by each party for U.S. House in the November 4, 2014 election: Republican 39,679,791 Democratic 35,450,701 Libertarian 965,396 Working Families 249,112 Green 246,567 Constitution 61,271 other parties 548,720 independent candidates 676,463 This is based on official election returns from each state. It does not include(More)… …read more

“It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field.”
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Cleveland, OH — The choice of a Cleveland Browns wide receiver to wear a shirt to Sunday’s game that read, “Justice for Tamir Rice – John Crawford” has been met with backlash by the Cleveland Police Union.
Jeff Follmer, the president of the Police Patrolman Union in Cleveland is demanding an apology for Andrew Hawkins decision to practice free speech.
Follmer issued the following statement Sunday, after the game:
It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should …read more

A time-lapse video depicting Saturday’s Millions March in New York City shows just how many people took to the streets to protest against police brutality in America and demand justice for unarmed black men killed by law enforcement.
RT.com
Tens of thousands of Americans across the country joined in massive marches against the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice, as well as the non-indictment of police officers in two of the cases.
The time-lapse video, uploaded by YouTube user Vinay Pulim on Sunday, shows the view from New York’s Sixth Ave and 29th Street, with people marching past the site …read more

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired and taken over development of Andrew Vilcsak’s iOS app for Coinbase. Going forward it will be the official Coinbase iOS app. Andrew did a great job with the app, using our open source code base as a starting point and we’d like to thank him for his efforts.
We will be releasing an updated version of the app soon, but the current version is already quite good. You can download and install the app here, or search “Coinbase” on your iPhone.
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The Peach Pundit has this story about Georgia’s very restrictive ballot access laws, and says there is some reason to believe a bill will be introduced in 2015 to make them somewhat less onerous. …read more

The Arizona Green Party recently submitted its petition to be recognized again as a qualified party. Election officials are now checking the signatures. …read more

On December 13, the U.S. Senate passed the bill that increases the amount of contributions individuals may give to national committees of political parties. See this story. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has already said he will sign it. …read more