Governor Andrew Cuomo "insisted Monday (April 1) that New York will pass a law to legalize recreational pot before the Legislature adjourns in June," The New York Post reports. He's been promising legalization for some time. Many New Yorkers had hoped the measure would be included in this year's state budget.

QUAD CITIES (April 2, 2019) — 

All 25 entries for the Holocaust Visual Arts Contest are now being displayed at the Moline Public Library (3210 41st St, Moline, Illinois) until April 16, and then the entries will be at Rutabaga Art Studio in Geneseo, Illinois.

Please stop by and see the amazing works of our local students.

2019 Winners of "The Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest" are as follows:

In a recent column on the mating dance between Big Government and Big Tech, I noted that "Big Tech wants to be regulated by Big Governments because regulation makes it more difficult and expensive for new competitors to enter the market."

Two days after I hit "publish" on that column, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for government regulation of social media in a Washington Post op-ed.

Governments around the world began trying to bring the Internet under control as soon as they realized the danger to their power represented by unfettered public access to, and exchange of, information. From attempts to suppress strong encryption technology to the Communications Decency Act in the US and China's "Great Firewall," such efforts have generally proven ineffectual. But things are changing, and not for the better.