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.
The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously to approve a controversial antidiscrimination ordinance — the second such ordinance the city body has passed since December 2008.
Opponents of the measure, organized into a group calling itself Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination wasted no time in announcing it will begin circulating petitions Tuesday to put the measure on the ballot. The group did the same thing in December and the council declined to put the measure up for a public vote then — but promised they would pass it again.
The commission appointed a special committee to take testimony on the ordinance. In March it took four and half hours of public testimony.
The group will have to collect at least 1,274 signatures of registered Kalamazoo voters within 20 days of the law taking effect. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the law is slated to take effect July 9.
If oppponents collect enough signatures to force a citywide vote, it will effectively suspend the ordinance until after the November election.
Proponents of the measure have also been preparing for an election battle over the issue. Michigan Messenger reported Friday Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality (KAFE) had brought in Jon Hoadley, executive director of the national Stonewall Democrats political organization.
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