What’s a threat on social media? How Black and Latino Chicago young men define and navigate threats online

Youth living in violent urban neighborhoods increasingly post messages online from urban street corners. The decline of the digital divide and the proliferation of social media platforms connect youth to peer communities who may share experiences with neighborhood stress and trauma. Social media can also be used for targeted retribution when threats and insults are directed at individuals or groups. Recent research suggests that gang-involved youth may use social media to brag, post fight videos, insult, and threaten—a phenomenon termed Internet banging. In this article, we leverage “code of the digital street” to understand how and in what ways social media facilitates urban-based youth violence. We utilize qualitative interviews from 33 Black and Latino young men who frequent violence prevention programs and live in violent neighborhoods in Chicago. Emerging themes describe how and why online threats are conceptualized on social media. Implications for violence prevention and criminal investigations are discussed

New Entrepreneurs piece with an interview with Wayne Danforth and Andre Poulin

New Entrepreneurs piece with an interview with Wayne Danforth and Andre Poulin of PHD Consulting Inc. in Newport, an Internet consulting company that was founded in 2002 with partner Bob Heald. They focus on website design and anticipate $250,000 in second-year revenues. All three were laid off from the information technology section of Dexter Shoe. They operate two websites: downtownme.com, a directory for Maine businesses, and mainedirtbikes.com

Newsworthy piece with a profile of Paul McFarland, 63, general manager of O\u27Ha

Newsworthy piece with a profile of Paul McFarland, 63, general manager of O\u27Hara Corp. of Rockland, a company that has diversified from processing fish as Maine\u27s fishing industry declined. Today the company owns a marina and half a shipyard, deals lobster bait and ice, and is involved in the scallop business and running factory trawlers. Recently McFarland encouraged co-owner Frank O\u27Hara Jr. to buy Mitchell Cove boats, based on Mount Desert Island. O\u27Hara Corp. recently finished its first model, a lobster boat

New Entrepreneurs piece containing a question-and-answer interview with Kurt E

New Entrepreneurs piece containing a question-and-answer interview with Kurt Eckhardt, president and general manager of Corporate Fleet Leasing in Cumberland. The company, founded in 2002, had first year revenues of $500,000. It anticipates revenues of$1.5 million in year two

An article comparing Pandora\u27s Boxx, an adult entertainment store in Brewer that

An article comparing Pandora\u27s Boxx, an adult entertainment store in Brewer that was shut down last month, with Nomia, an adult store in Portland that opened in February to generally positive reception. Clifford Tumosa of Dover-Foxcroft, owner of the Brewer store, told the city and his landlord merely that he was selling video tapes and recording equipment and sited the store near a church, incensing residents. Nomia, owned by Gina Rourke, presents itself as sophisticated, clean and open. With details on a national increase in sex-positive stores like Nomia, and zoning issues related to adult stores in Maine

New Entrepreneurs interview, conducted by Caitlin Elsaesser, with Sean Casey o

New Entrepreneurs interview, conducted by Caitlin Elsaesser, with Sean Casey of Western Maine Mortgage in Norway. Western Maine Mortgage was founded in 2003 and its anticipated revenues in year one are $100,000, and anticipated revenues in year two are$150,000

A supplemental tech 2 GO Entrepreneurs piece with an interview with Sari Ste

A supplemental tech 2 GO Entrepreneurs piece with an interview with Sari Stern Greene, president of Sage Data Security in South Portland. The company was founded in 2002 to do comprehensive computer security education and consulting services and projects second-year revenues of $800,000, double first-year revenues

Newsworthy piece with a profile of Norman Lauze, owner of Coastal Metal Fab in

Newsworthy piece with a profile of Norman Lauze, owner of Coastal Metal Fab in Topsham, which manufactures and sells Downeaster (road) salt spreaders as well as trailers and dump bodies for trucks. He offers 30 different salt spreader designs and exhibits his products around the country. Light snow in the past two years has translated into weaker sales

New Entrepreneurs piece on Twain Braden and Scott Reischmann, co-owners of Por

New Entrepreneurs piece on Twain Braden and Scott Reischmann, co-owners of Portland Schooner Company, which was founded in 2002 and which offers two-hour sails aboard the 72-foot classic wooden schooner Bagheera on Casco Bay. Over the last year, private charters have increased by 50 percent, many of them corporate customers. Seventy-five percent of customers are from Maine

Focus: Building & Real Estate piece on Bath-based Mainely Knobs, which produce

Focus: Building & Real Estate piece on Bath-based Mainely Knobs, which produces custom stone knobs to match granite countertops and other stone surfaces in homes. Founded by Ken Baker and Susan Elkin in 2005, the company grinds knobs from scraps of stone from customers countertop installation of other remodeling project. With comments by Carol Bartlett, a certified kitchen designer who works at Down East Building Supply in Brunswick; Julie Garland, of Bath-based Midcoast Marble and Granite; and Peggy Higgins, an interior designer at Park Row Interiors in Brunswick