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In February of 2020 we published an article about Dr. Francis Boyle, a law professor who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act in the United States. He was quite certain that SARS-CoV2 leaked out of a lab unintentionally, or intentionally, and that it was being used as a biological warfare weapon. He went on to […]

Center for Biological Diversity: Office of Inspector General Urged to Begin Formal Investigation

A Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled on the side of The Traverse City Record-Eagle in a case about transparency. The ruling says that Traverse City Area Public Schools cannot use the Open Meetings Act to withhold documents. In the autumn of 2019, the Record-Eagle filed a Freedom of Information Act Request to get a document which had complaints on then-TCAPS Superintendent Ann Cardon. The school board declined the request and a subsequent appeal, saying the document was a part of the minutes ...

May 6, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com The Livingston County Board of Commissioners is set to give final approval to a resolution seeking to issue a Freedom of Information Act Request for the specific information that the state is using to justify emergency workplace rules regarding COVID-19. In a resolution authored by Board Chairman Wes Nakagiri, the commissioners will seek to have County Administrator Nathan Burd issue Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reque...

Andrew Brown: Here’s everything we know about the fatal police shooting in North Carolina Josh Marcus © Provided by The Independent Just over a week after police killed Daunte Wright in Minneapolis, sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, killed yet another Black man, 42-year-old Andrew Brown, Jr. Here’s what we know about this latest police killing, which has inspired days of protests and captured national attention. What happened to Andrew Brown? A group ...

Laura Benshoff / WHYY The federal government has proposed more bed space in the Berks Family Residential Center — a detail missing from one commissioner’s public statement last week about the center’s future. Berks County Commissioner Chair Christian Leinbach said the proposal’s “bottom line” was the county’s willingness to continue detaining families or just women migrants. But he didn’t mention the proposal for more beds, and the possibility of more detainees. ICE’s pro...

Berks County commissioners agreed this week to invite representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency to a future operations meeting to discuss the cleanup of former Exide properties, including a Hamburg Superfund site. Commissioners Chairman Christian Leinbach and Commissioner Kevin Barnhardt said Thursday that they would like to have an EPA representative give an update on the situation in the Hamburg area. Leinbach acknowledged that residents have been frustrated in finding answers ...

CADILLAC — Cadillacs fire marshal has his city job back but hes not getting paid for the time between his firing and reinstatement.

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II In the last week or so, I have made some decent money with the sale of my GameStop stock that I owned since the IPO nearly 20 years ago.  I never thought that what happened with GameStop would lead me to submit a Freedom of Information Act Request to the Capitol Hill Police Department, but here we are. Last week, when AOC went on a rant about RobinHood’s pause of trades of GameStop, Ted Cruz stepped in to offer support and agreement.   AOC, instead of gracefully ...

A look inside the complicated assault case the Marine Corps doesn’t want anyone talking about January 29 Cpl. Thae Ohu is currently in the brig facing nine charges including attempted murder. (Photo courtesy of Michael Hinesley) A prosecution’s push to silence those working to fight for Marine Cpl. Thae Ohu was struck down by a Marine Corps judge Monday. “I lack sympathy to infringe on constitutional rights,” Lt. Col. Michael Zimmerman, the judge in the case, said during a hearin...