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.
Proponents of a new anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo have started an online petition to urge Kalamazoo voters to keep the ordinance, approved June 29, on the books, just as opponents have been collecting signatures to put the ordinance up for a public vote.
The opposition group, Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination, successfully collected the necessary 1,274 signatures to repeal the ordinance last December. The Kalamazoo City Council repealed the ordinance rather than putting it on the ballot.
Opponents have 20 days from the June 29 to collect the requisite number of signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.
The group Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality launched SupportKalamazoo.com on Tuesday. The new website allows anyone to sign the petition, and also seeks volunteers and donors for ballot battle expected to heat up going into the November elections.
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