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 Proposal 2 passed in November 2004, there was a great deal of confusion among voters about what exactly they had voted for. They had been repeatedly told by those who advocated the measure that it would only prohibit gay marriage and would not have any effect on domestic partnership benefits offered by public employers, but almost immediately after the election the new state employee’s union contract had been stripped of such benefits pending a judicial determination on the scope and reach of the new law’s language. Even some who strongly opposed gay marriage expressed concern. The Detroit News contacted people who had voted for the amendment and found that many of them said they would not have supported it had they known it might void such contracts. Said one:
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