FFRF was chosen from more than 8,000 charities to be in Reddit’s top 10 and receive an $82,766 donation. Reddit, a social networking and news website, decided to donate 10% …
Day: March 24, 2015
FFRF to Wis. Legislature: End school vouchers
FFRF is urging the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful Joint Committee on Finance to investigate rampant school voucher fraud and to end the disastrous voucher experiment altogether. In a Feb. 16 letter …
Meet a legal intern: Kristin L. Martin
Name: Kristin L. Martin. I was born: On a lazy Sunday afternoon in July. Family: I have two parents and an older sister. Education: I’m currently a law student at …
State/church success moves from Hawaii to Michigan
Mitch Kahle and Holly Huber, FFRF Lifetime Members, have made several notches in their state/church separation belts since moving home to Michigan 16 months ago from Hawaii, where they had …
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Hypocrisy in Searcy?
Police Chief Jeremy Clark suddenly resigned his position in Searcy, Ark., after a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force searched his home March 3. FFRF had complained …
FFRF complaint letters spread from sea to shining sea
Contact: Mayor of Slidell, La. Violation: The mayor hosted a religious community breakfast with the theme “A Call for Prayer and Unity.” At least eight different speakers delivered prayers. Contact: …
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FFRF schools Eastern Howard on Constitution, history
FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover sent a complaint letter Feb. 23 to Superintendent Tracy Caddell of the Eastern Howard School Corp. in Greentown, Ind., about statements Caddell made to the …
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Chicago atheists ‘come out’ again
FFRF and its Metropolitan Chicago Chapter placed their third set of friendly but thought-provoking billboards that feature the diverse faces and “testimonials” of Chicago-area atheists, agnostics and freethinkers. Eleven “Out …
In Memoriam: James E. Yates Jr.
James E. Yates Jr. James Everett Yates Jr., 72, Taylors Valley, Va., died unexpectedly Jan. 29, 2015, in Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, S.C.He grew up in Tazewell, Va., …
