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Financial data startup YCharts has raised $3.875 million in its third round of funding as it makes an aggressive play for institutional customers. The company, which is based in Chicago and New York, has now raised a total of $8.625 million. It last...

 The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a group promoting far-right legislation. Its tax exempt status is currently challenged, as its sole purpose is to formulate legislation promoting extremely conservative points of view and helping the...

UPDATED TUESDAY MORNING The public directly and indirectly subsidizes an awful lot of academic research on the theory that knowledge is an important public good. So the public should have access to it! We should be able to arrange the......

Aaron Swartz saw a closed world and wanted to crack it open. His suicide by hanging in New York last week has reignited the conflict between the values of property possession and digital openness and intensified debate over the government’s...

Teresa Sonsthagen and Stacey Ostby have been named co-directors of North Dakota State University's Veterinary Technology program. They are licensed veterinary technologists in the program. This is the first co-director team that has been appointed...

In a small, rural, rust-belt town there sits a nondescript office building not far from the town square. The building is an unassuming amalgam of storefronts, offices and vacancies. Near one of the offices, there hangs a shingle: "Psychiatrist's Office."...

Running a word-count program on the transcript of last night's GOP presidential primary debate I get: Mitt Romney -- 4,649 (34%) Newt Gingrich -- 4,118 (30%) Rick Santorum --2,898 ( 21%) Ron Paul -- 2,095 (15%) This does not include......

Wednesday's book news includes backlash over Elsevier's journals, and anti-evolution voice app Iris that has financial ties to Jeff Bezos...

Here a few cookbooks that nicely showcase Irish cuisine: The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews (Chronicle Books) Known for its scenic landscape rather than its gastronomic prowess, Ireland has never been considered a major force on the world'...

Variety, Hollywood's oldest and most iconic entertainment industry trade publication, has been put up for sale....

Last Saturday, for the first time in years, the New Canaan police had to pull up the statute on holding a public picket. That's because two busloads of protesters descended upon General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt's mansion off Ponus Ridge Road. The...