I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
EAST LANSING — About one hundred students and community members gathered in the median of Grand River Ave. and Abbott in downtown East Lansing during rush hour traffic to bring attention to the 4,000 American soldiers who have died since the beginning of the war in 2003. The protesters were from the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice (GLNAWI.org) and carried signs which included the death count of American soldiers and Iraq civilians. They also carried signs showing a rolling sign from the word Iraq to the world Iran.
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Spike Tyson, 58, was one of the protesters. The disabled Vietnam veteran said he was there to protest the war, not soldiers. “This insane war was started by George the Second as a retaliation… There is no reason to go in,” he said. “Being against the war is never about diss’in’ the soldiers. You think I don’t want to be over there with my brothers?”
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