A public service in the United States is a service provided by the government to its citizens. Public services include education, electricity, fire service, police service, public transportation, certain types of broadcasting, waste management and a whole bunch of other stuff. Anything classified as a public service is maintained by an organization known as...

In the way the US government provides services, a large portion of it cannot be advertised either because it a) wastes taxpayer dollars, b) simply isn’t in the budget or c) is prohibited from being advertised. One such service that isn’t advertised (not by the government anyway) is government grant money. Thankfully there is a central web site for...

A topic that’s remained hot ever since people started sending emails is the question of who owns what. Some questions about content ownership can be definitively answers while others are still unanswerable. Here’s some of the more hotter questions and their answers. Q: If my mail is stored on a third-party server (i.e. the internet), do I still own...