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.
Members of the radical anarchist group Bash Back! Lansing have been served with court orders in a federal lawsuit brought against them for their participation in a Nov. 9 protest in the evangelical Lansing Church Mount Hope Church.
According to Bash Back! Lansing’s blog, 23 people with associations with the group have been served with the orders.
The lawsuit alleges that the group violated the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law, that the protest on Nov. 9 resulted in the intimidation in attendees at the service, and that they violated the church’s First Amendment right to freedom of religion in a place of worship.
The suit was brought by the Alliance Defense Fund of Arizona.
The protests made national news in early November, including an appearance by representatives from Lansing area conservatives on the Fox News Network’s The O’Reilly Factor.
In the suit, which you can read here (pdf), Mount Hope Church officials argue that fire alarms were pulled, and that protesters broke the law. But Michigan Messenger reported shortly after the Nov. 9 protest that no fire alarms were pulled that day, and that Eaton County Sheriff officials found not criminal actions when they arrived at the church.
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