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.
A move to include sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in the Holland city laws has been referred to the city’s Human Relations Commission. This past spring Bill Freeman, chaplain of the Interfaith Congregation, called on the council to pass an ordinance similar to the ones found in a handful of communities across the state, including Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing. Saugatuck city and township both have the ordinance as well.
On Wednesday, the city council on a voice vote directed the city’s Human Relations Commission to study the issue, reports the Grand Rapids Press. There is no time frame as to when the study needs to be completed.
This could also be laying the ground work for a ballot battle on the issue. Such initiatives have popped up in the past in Hamtramck, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Ferndale.
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