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.
WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit recently did a story about the son of Francie Baldino, who is one of many young people in Michigan to have been caught in “Romeo and Juliet” relationships and then forced to be on the sex offender registry for the next 25 years. You can see the video of that report here.
Baldino is the leader of the Michigan chapter of Reform Sex Offender Laws; the Michigan Messenger told her son’s story late last year as part of our ongoing series looking at how to make the sex offender list more useful and fair.
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