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.
EAST LANSING — A new student group, Chicanos y Latinos Unidos, at Michigan State University is hosting a 5 p.m. rally today at the Rock. The Rock is located on Farm Lane near the MSU Auditorium and has long been a location for free speech gatherings on campus.
The new group said in a press conference earlier this week that Young Americans for Freedom is creating an unsafe environment with the speakers they are hosting.
“On this campus is a registered student group comprised mainly of white male students who erroneously believe their derogatory opinions, public assertions and sweeping opinions concerning non-white people are absolutely protected by the First Amendment,” said CLU member Gabriela Alcazar. “The public speech of the Young Americans for Freedom is inciting and is meant to be.”
YAF was listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in April. It is the only university recognized student hate group the SPLC has ever recognized on its annual listing. SPLC is a national expert in hate groups and the hate movement, and its quarterly publication The Intelligence Report is distributed to over 50,000 law enforcement officials.
As reported earlier, YAF leader Kyle Bristow has been linked to the white supremacy movement and some the speakers he will be hosting through the year have also been tied to the white supremacy movement.
“They obviously disagree with free speech,” Bristow told WLNS News on Tuesday. “We’re bringing in a speaker who’s against illegal immigration, and who wants to see to it that our borders are enforced. That is not an extremist position. These people are the extremists.”
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