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 American Religious Identification Survey, administered periodically by The Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Connecticut, has been released for 2008 and it shows a relatively dramatic decrease in religious belief since the last major study in 1990. Michigan is no exception.
The total number of people self-identifying as Christian in Michigan dropped from 86% in 1990 to 75% in 2008, with the largest decline coming among Catholics, which went from 29% of the state’s population to 20%. The number of adherents to other religions stayed steady at 3%, but the number of people identifying as non-religious jumped from 9% to 16%.
This mirrors the trend nationwide, where the percentage of people identifying themselves as Christians has dropped from 86% of the national population in 1990 to 76% today. The number of non-religious Americans has jumped significantly, from 8.2% to 15%.
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