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Detroit's Charter Proposals: What You Need To Know

HuffingtonPost.com | Ashley Woods | Posted 11.06.2012 | Detroit
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Much has been written about the six statewide proposals this year that would ratify Public Act 4, the emergency manager law, and add five new constitu...

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Publius: Why You Should Vote In Detroit

Publius | Vince Keenan | Posted 11.06.2012 | Detroit
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This post was originally published on the Urban Innovation Exchange. Do-it-yourself Detroit is on borrowed time. Working around the democr...

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Laughable Online Censorship Attempt Won't Last a New York Minute

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2012 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

Republicans in the New York state government are attempting to pass a law that would ban anonymous comments online. Even if they actually passed the act, once it arrived in a federal court it would be tossed out in a "New York minute" (as they say).

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Anonymity Of "Obama Is A Muslim" Emails Constitutionally-Protected?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

Emails saying absolutely anything about a candidate could not only be sent anonymously, but whoever sends them would actually be allowed to break any sort of anti-spam laws to do so.

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