Here's a bit of irony.  School Boards are constituted to operate our public schools, to impart learning to our youth.  And yet, in some parts of the country, it appears that School Boards need to go back to school to learn how to read and interpret the English language for themselves.  The federa...

Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has been thinking about the recent decision by The State Officers Compensation Commission to cut legislative pay by ten percent. Hear Audio Story    There is something to be said for a spirit of shared sacrifice during hard times...

When it comes to the DMCA, it seems that Google has been nothing but a headache. In the past four years of this site, I have lamented Google’s lack of email contact information, developed a hack to get around that, I have faxed a 17-page DMCA notice to their Adsense department (which is separa...

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Last year, the New Zealand government passed ‘3-strike’ legislation which was designed to have alleged copyright infringers disconnected from the Internet. In February a code of practice was drafted by the music industry and ISPs which attempted to lay out how the ISPs would go about dis...

I've been a bit busy the last couple days, so this will be brief. Included in this post is one opinion out of the other Washington, the Supreme Court opinion in Wyeth. Because there's a lot to do though, I will keep it boiled down to the bare essentials: March 3, 2009 Div. II City of Gig Harbor v. N...

I still think of Michigan’s constitution as our “new constitution.� I suppose this is because I was still in elementary school when it was written and adopted, and there was a lot of hoopla surrounding it. Teachers told us that we should be proud that our state finally had a progressive new co...

The 7-member California Supreme Court, which voted 4-3 last May that same-sex couples had a right to marry under the California Constitution, heard arguments on March 5 about whether a slim majority of the voters on November 4 had validly amended the state’s Constitution to change that result by a...

Several talented lesbian and gay attorneys have managed over the past twenty years to get themselves elected to the New York State Supreme Court -- our trial court of general jurisdiction -- but until today we had faced a lavender barrier of sorts, as we have never had an openly gay or lesbian Supre...

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