1. Los Angeles kills freedom of the press

    ... , and the result is not good for writers, and particularly for investigative journalists. Los ... Angeles began to apply their business tax and licensing laws to all writers who work as independent ... ominous for writers, website publishers, or anyone who may be critical of government officials

  2. America's first tax on writers

    ... to tax the work of writers like himself, Thomas Paine, James Madison and other colonists? How ... the homes and files of those writers -- even to the point of examining unfinished draft ... manuscripts and notes? What would they have done if the king ordered all writers to register and keep him

  3. Poe fans plan last vigil for mystery visitor

    POE

    ... for the mysterious person who for decades visited the gothic writers grave on the anniversary of his birth

  4. 'Not appropriate' for prez to mediate strike

    ... It is "not appropriate" for the president to try to intervene as a mediator in the Writers ... Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House. "Will the president try to help settle the Writers ... by guild members since the Writers Guild of America launched its first strike in almost two decades

  5. Mob's ties to waste-disposal business run deep

    ... Not for nothing was Tony Soprano a solid-waste management consultant.The writers of the HBO series

  6. Rosen tweeted support for SOPA

    sopa

    ... Act. A heated Twitter exchange took place in November 2011 between the writers of the tech blog

  7. A Christmas gift from the Writers Guild

    ... On Nov. 5, the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike over complaints about ... observed, "[T]he absence of the writers from TV right now might mark a good time to ... take measure ... of what writers bring to television." I agree with the columnist that this is a good time

  8. DNA hackers won't be targeting your computer

    ... leaders. They sound like devices restricted to feature-film script writers, but it is possible

  9. YouTube ordered to crack down on user videos

    youtube.com

    ... sided with Germany's GEMA, which represents about 60,000 German writers and musicians.

  10. Visit to Jerusalem unlocks history of writing

    ... Writers have always had it tough. According to a recent blog by Michael Hyatt, Google research ... , and they are only increasing. So you have competition. But we have today, I think, advantages as writers ... that are touchstones in history for writers. The Dead Sea Scrolls, housed at the Israel Museum