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.
An African-American family in Oakland County found a burning cross in their yard, the Detroit Free Press reports:
The homeowner discovered two pieces of wood, nailed together and burned near the bottom, lying near his home on the 7000 block of Cameo and called police the following day, according to Undersheriff Mike McCabe. A swatch of grass about eight feet by three inches leading away from the cross was also charred.
Though burning crosses was an act of racist intimidation more common in the south, Michigan also has a long and disturbing history of white supremacist organizations. For decades until his death, Robert Miles led the Michigan chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and his farm was a center of racist activity for the state and the entire nation.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists 23 hate groups in Michigan, most of them classified as white supremacist or neo-Nazi groups. The election of the nation’s first black president has spurred renewed activity in this dark underbelly of America, including a new white supremacist group operating recently in West Michigan.
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