In The New York Times’ Opinionator blog, the always-interesting Linda Greenhouse has a new post on the shifting influence of Justice Kennedy on a more-conservative Supreme Court. According to Greenhouse, “Justice Kennedy no longer appears to reside at the court’s center of gravity. The center has shifted to the right.”

How to find personal information about someone is one of those difficult research tasks that is never taught.  Want to know what public records are available where?  Here is a wonderful overview of the various free and fee-based resources available for public records.

The library hours for Pappas and the Annex are as follows:

Friday, July 2: 9am - 3pm

Saturday, July 3 - Monday, July 5: CLOSED

Have a good weekend everyone.

As you may recall, last July’s arrest of Professor Gates by Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department made news headlines and resulted in a heated debate about “the ways in which issues of race, class, power, authority, and respect intersect with the everyday operations of the police.” (Report, p. 13)

Today’s Boston Globe discusses the report on Gates’ arrest and mentions how the report found both parties “at blame” for the incident and its aftermath.  The report of the Cambridge Review Committee on the Gates’ arrest may be found in the City of Cambridge Police Department website.