Privacy advocates have just established a noncommercial website that allowing visitors to request their FBI Files, as well as files from several other governmental agencies. http://www.GetMyFBIfile.com

UPDATE 12-5-07: The 6% services tax enacted by the Michigan legislature went briefly into — and then out of — effect, on December 1, 2007. The repeal legislation retroactively exempted all potentially covered transactions from tax liability. My small business clients (and several blog editors and comment submitters) have been waiting with bated breath for [...]

A federal class action lawsuit in California against Target, brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer’s Web site is inaccessible to the blind, has been allowed to go forward. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Title III provides that “goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations” of places of “public accommodation” must be made accessible [...]

UPDATE 12-5-07: The 6% services tax enacted by the Michigan legislature went briefly into — and then out of — effect, on December 1, 2007. The repeal legislation retroactively exempted all potentially covered transactions from tax liability. I have set up a mailing list on Google Groups called SERVICETAX-MI to discuss the extension of the [...]

UPDATE 12-5-07: The 6% services tax enacted by the Michigan legislature went briefly into — and then out of — effect, on December 1, 2007. The repeal legislation retroactively exempted all potentially covered transactions from tax liability. I have spent the last day analyzing the bill text of the new Michigan services tax law enacted [...]

UPDATE 12-5-07: The 6% services tax enacted by the Michigan legislature went briefly into — and then out of — effect, on December 1, 2007. The repeal legislation retroactively exempted all potentially covered transactions from tax liability. Michigan state legislators have avoided a state government shutdown by reaching a comprehensive budget agreement which includes budget [...]