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 atheist organization has arranged to take out ads on buses in the metro Detroit area that have proved controversial in other areas of the country. The ads say simply: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.”
The ads, which will run for a month, are sponsored by the Detroit Area Coalition of Reason, with $5,600 in funding from the United Coalition of Reason, according to Ruthe Milan, spokeswoman for the group’s Michigan chapter.
“The buses will run in the greater Oakland County area all the way south into the central business district in Detroit,” said Milan, 54.
“I wanted to hit as many major thoroughfares as possible so we could have greater visibility to the public about our message.”
Identical ads have been met with protests in other cities. Last summer in Des Moines, Iowa, one of the city’s bus drivers refused to drive a bus with that ad on the side and was suspended for it. Rather odd since all the ad does is acknowledge that atheists exist.
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