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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Financial settlement reached in Michigan Title IX case

By Ed Brayton | 04.16.09 | 12:17 am

After 11 years in the courts, the Michigan High School Athletic Association has finally agreed to settlement terms in a lawsuit over disparate treatment of girls and boys sports in the state of Michigan. The MHSAA will pay $6 million in legal fees to Communities for Equity, the organization that brought the suit in 1998. Ms. Magazine has the details:

In the 2001 case ruling, US District Judge Richard A. Enslen ordered the MHSAA to re-schedule the girls’ athletic season to be compatible with the boys’ athletic season, which mirrored the seasons used by colleges and universities.

The lawsuit claimed that the MHSAA’s scheduling of girls sports in 1998 did not follow colleges and universities and was therefore detrimental to female athletes because it limited news coverage of their games and their ability to play for college recruiters that follow the university schedule. The suit argued that the scheduling policy violated equal protection rights under the fourteenth amendment, Michigan civil rights laws, and Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination against girls and women in federally funded education programs, including athletics.

The money will be paid in installments through 2015.

Comments

  • Trajan8

    When is Communities for Equity going to challenge the gross unbalance of Title IX?

    This may not be true for all school systems, but when I was in high school at the beginning of the decade, we had girls play on both our football team and wrestling team. Yet they were considered “boys” sports in terms of having equal numbers for the two genders (which is fine, I understand that). But then I wanted to play volleyball, and we didn't have a boys team. So I figured I'd play on the girls team. Nope, not allowed.

    So any sport that only has a boys team is also open to girls. But a sport that only has a girls team is not open to boys. Equity? I don't see it.

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  • Melvinband5

    Trajan8 is absolutely right about how there is no equity for the boys. Please read ,”Leveling the Playing Field” ,by Jessica Gavora. How Title IX was mutated from providing equal opportunities for girls into DEMANDING equal participation for them. Now where is the evidence that girls playing 'out of season' received less press coverage? How many reporters were called to testify? Next, what do you say to the girls who are on track to get scholarships in two sports, but have to drop one now.? Aren't their opportunies decreased? Googling high school girls spring soccer, I have come up with 20 states that have it in the spring. I kid you not. Gee, I guess the ACLU bettter pack its bags and start traveling to these states to get 'justice' for these girls.

  • Melvinband5

    Trajan8 is absolutely right about how there is no equity for the boys. Please read ,”Leveling the Playing Field” ,by Jessica Gavora. How Title IX was mutated from providing equal opportunities for girls into DEMANDING equal participation for them. Now where is the evidence that girls playing 'out of season' received less press coverage? How many reporters were called to testify? Next, what do you say to the girls who are on track to get scholarships in two sports, but have to drop one now.? Aren't their opportunies decreased? Googling high school girls spring soccer, I have come up with 20 states that have it in the spring. I kid you not. Gee, I guess the ACLU bettter pack its bags and start traveling to these states to get 'justice' for these girls.

  • Melvinband5

    Trajan8 is absolutely right about how there is no equity for the boys. Please read ,”Leveling the Playing Field” ,by Jessica Gavora. How Title IX was mutated from providing equal opportunities for girls into DEMANDING equal participation for them. Now where is the evidence that girls playing 'out of season' received less press coverage? How many reporters were called to testify? Next, what do you say to the girls who are on track to get scholarships in two sports, but have to drop one now.? Aren't their opportunies decreased? Googling high school girls spring soccer, I have come up with 20 states that have it in the spring. I kid you not. Gee, I guess the ACLU bettter pack its bags and start traveling to these states to get 'justice' for these girls.

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