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.
After a significant increase in reported bias crimes and related incidents in 2007, Michigan has reported a decrease in reported incidents for 2008. In 2007, the Detroit-based Triangle Foundation, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization which tracks hate-motivated crimes targeting the LGBT community, reported a 133-percent increase in such incidents. Last year, the organization reported a 14-percent drop in reported incidents.
Nationwide, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, of which Triangle Foundation is a member, reported an overall increase in bias crimes and incidents nationwide of 2 percent. Among the categories of concern to the group is the highest reported level of bias motivated murders, 29, in 10 years. Four of those murders occurred in Michigan, according to the report.
To read the report, click here (pdf).
The Michigan House passed legislation to strengthen the state’s bias crimes law by expanding protections to LGBT individuals, veterans, persons with disabilities and other categories currently not covered by the law. The legislation also passed the House in the lame duck session of 2008, and died in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
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