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 former Whirlpool worker who said she was punished for associating with African Americans on the job will get another chance to argue her case in federal court.
Treva Nickens, who worked for more than 20 years at the Benton-Harbor based appliance manufacturer’s La Vergne, Tennessee plant claimed that she was refused a promotion by a supervisor who said she spent too much time with black people. Nickens said she was also physically threatened for reporting racist jokes to a supervisor.
Last week the federal appeals court in Cincinnati dismissed two other cases about discrimination based on association at Whirlpool but said that Nickens should have a chance to argue her claim about Whirpool’s hostile work environment in the U.S. District Court in Nashville.
In 2005 Whirlpool agreed to a $850,000 settlement in a case involving hiring practices that discriminated against African Americans.
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