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.
It has not been a banner week for two governments in Macomb County. Warren officials were notified they are being sued for an incident in which a diabetic man was tasered by Warren police officers. In the meantime, the county itself is being sued for eliminating a Christmas display which depicted the birth of Jesus.
In the Warren lawsuit, 53-year-old Ralph Edward Eldridge accuses police of assault, battery, excessive force, false arrest, gross negligence and intentional infliction of emotional and physical distress. Eldridge alleges in his suit that officers tasered him after he informed them he was suffering a diabetic reaction and needed candy to stabilize his blood sugar.
But according to the Macomb Daily, police tell a very different story. A police report obtained by the newspaper shows officers had to taser Eldridge after he refused to exit his vehicle.
Meanwhile, the county’s road commission is being sued by a Christian group over its refusal to allow John Satawa to put up a nativity scene in the public right of way on road in Warren. The Satawa family had been doing so since 1945, but the Freedom From Religion Foundation objected to the display.
According the MLive, the Wisconsin group wrote a letter to the commission, in which it said
“Once the government enters into the religion business, conferring endorsement and preference for one religion over others, it strikes a blow at religious liberty, forcing taxpayers of all faiths and of no religion to support a particular expression of worship.”
The Thomas More Law Center is representing Satawa in the suit filed in federal court.
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