I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A federal judge has ruled against the Bush administration’s attempts to have a case challenging possible warrantless wiretapping dismissed. This may be an important case that could put a nail in the coffin of the state secrets privilege as a means of avoiding all judicial scrutiny of the NSA’s wiretapping program.
Two whistleblowers from the NSA have revealed what should have been obvious to anyone paying attention, that the warrantless wiretaps and other surveillance programs went far beyond merely tracking terrorists:
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to weaken constitutional protections by allowing the government to obtain data from cell phone companies on individual users without a warrant.
[COMMENTARY] As part of a recent CNN special called “Black in America,” much new information has come to light about the FBI’s surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is information that should stand as a stark warning of the dangers of allowing one branch of government to engage in surveillance of American citizens [...]
The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to hear an appeal on a Michigan case filed against the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. That suit was filed on behalf of a group of journalists, scholars and others who had reason to believe that their phone calls may have been tapped due to their frequent contact with [...]
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