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The USPS is falling deeper into debt and facing dwindling mail volume combined with rising costs. Last week, Postmaster General testified before the Senate; during his statement, he requested that Congress remove the requirement that the Postal Service must deliver six days a week. USPS would like the option of dropping one delivery day, possibly Saturday. Read news coverage and a transcript of the Postmaster’s statement.

A US District Court has ruled that school officials in Burlington, Conn., did not violate a student’s free speech rights by disciplining her for an Internet posting she made off-campus. The case deals with critical comments the student made about school administrators on her blog regarding a school event. In his ruling, the judge noted that circumstances have changed since the prior rulings that set boundaries for schools regulating off-campus speech, saying that, because of the Internet and email, “off-campus speech can become on-campus speech with the click of a mouse.” He also noted that since the Supreme Court has not yet decided whether online speech can be punished on-campus, whether written at the school or not, school administrators face ambiguity about what First Amendment protections do and don’t cover.  Read more and more…


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