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 editors of the Kalamazoo Gazette on Sunday endorsed Ordinance 1856, the human rights ordinance that will be voted on in that city on Nov. 3.
That ordinance, being advocated by an organization called One Kalamazoo, would prohibit discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The Gazette editors said the real question is whether Kalamazoo wants to be a welcoming community:
Either we are all equal, or we are not.
Is it right, then, that a person in Kalamazoo can be fired or denied employment or housing simply for being gay? Voters in the city have the opportunity on Nov. 3 to remove that inequity and deliver a strong message about the type of community we want to have…We do not believe this is a morality issue, except to the extent that discrimination and inequality are immoral — and illegal.
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