The onset of the new year has breathed new life into the still unsubstantiated claim that Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early had a hand in ordering the blackout of incriminating details from the arrest report concerning a prominent local judge's daughter.
The latest allegation involves the same Worcester-based blog that was the first to break the story about the Massachusetts State Police's treatment of Alli Bibaud's arrest report — she, the daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud.
Maine Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, sent back a handwritten note to a 16-year-old girl who wrote to him expressing opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to lift so-called "net neutrality" rules enacted during the Obama Administration that were designed to ensure that all Internet information was treated the same. Supporters of net neutrality rules worry that without them big corporations will shaft some types of communication over others, but critics of the rules say they posed an unwise regulatory burden.
