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.
A rally of white supremacists in Kalamazoo last summer was organized and attended by a paid FBI informant, the Southern Poverty Law Center is reporting.
Hal Turner, a New Jersey-based internet radio host and avowed racist who has called for the murder of federal judges, held a rally against what he called black crime in Kalamazoo on Aug. 4, 2007. During that rally, Turner called for the “lynching” of blacks.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a report on its blog, said it has confirmed that Turner was a paid informant for the FBI Field Office in Newark, N.J., for “years.”
Turner’s rally drew about 60 white supremacy supporters, sporting swastikas and Confederate flag motifs on their clothing. The rally cost the city of Kalamazoo more than $80,000 for police protection and tied up more than 400 officers from several police agencies.
The National Press Office of the FBI declined comment on the report, directing questions to Sean Quinn of the Newark Field Office. Those calls had not been returned as of early Thursday afternoon.
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