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 1976 letter to the Daily Princetonian expressing dismay about the ransacking of the dorm room of two members of the Gay Alliance of Princeton has come to light. Among the 39 signers was Sonya Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The letter reads, in part:
For private citizens to try to intimidate the Gay Alliance into silence is a denial of the foundations on which a university is built.
No matter how much one may disagree with the Gay Alliance or the policies they are advocating, no matter how repugnant one may find homosexuality, the manner of expressing this opposition should be intellectual. At this university we are dedicated to persuasion by reason, not by brute force.
Intimidation of those courageous enough to express their views, violence directed against unpopular associations, midnight criminal assaults on private residences— these speak for themselves. The entire university community should be angry, and disgusted, that this kind of action has occurred at Princeton.
While the letter stops short of endorsing rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, it does provide an insight into Sotomayor’s views of the First Amendment, and some in the gay community are arguing, equality for LGBT people. Expect to this become an issue in the hearings for Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings later this year.
Sotomayor was announced Tuesday as President Barack Obama’s choice to replace outgoing Associate Justice David Souter on the bench.
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