A government only works for its people when its people know what their government is up to. But the Michigan Court of Appeals early this year ruled essentially that only public bodies, not the employees of public bodies, are subject to Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act. The Michigan ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel's military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's financial arm and will attack a "large number of targets" in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut's southern suburbs about an hour later. Evacuation warnings affected southern ...
Some Dickinson County politicians seem to be struggling with the idea of free speech. In August, the Dickinson County Fair Board continued its anti-speech policies by forbidding the political parties from distributing signs and demanded one of the vendors remove a political sign affixed to ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde repeatedly accused each other of lying over the course of their closely watched Senate race during an often-testy and confrontational debate Friday. Here are eight takeaways from the debate, held in ...
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — which would become known as the Bill of Rights — he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of speech. After various ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past four years, judges at Washington's federal courthouse have punished hundreds of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented assault on the nation's democracy. On the cusp of the next presidential election, some of those judges fear another burst of ...