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.
The national gay rights organization, Freedom to Marry, has released a pretty interesting study that shows that elected officials who support marriage equality and oppose anti-gay legislation do not suffer at the polls as a result of those votes.
The study reviewed the the votes of elected officials on LGBT issues and specifically marriage equality issues, and found that all 1,100 elected officials who had cast ballots in support of marriage equality had been re-elected to office.
Study authors looked at votes in California, Mass., New York and Conn. and tracked their votes since 2005.
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