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.
An attempt to put a referendum on Hamtramck’s November ballot that would strip protections of sexual orientation and gender expression from the Hamtramck human rights ordinance appears to have failed, at least initially.
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In June, the Hamtramck City Council passed a human rights law that prohibited discrimination in employment, housing and city contracting “on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, height, weight, condition of pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental limitation, source of income, family responsibilities or status, educational association, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or handicap.”
Opposition to the inclusion of “sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression” immediately sprang up, and a campaign was launched by a group of local residents to collect enough petition signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to repeal the ordinance. Only 417 signatures were needed and 523 were collected and turned in to City Clerk Ed Norris last week. After examining all of the signatures, however, Norris concluded Monday that only 410 were valid, leaving them seven short of the number necessary.
The city clerk is in the process of notifying the petitioners that they do not have enough valid signatures. By law, the petitioners will then have 15 days to submit additional signatures to meet the minimum necessary.
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