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 federal judge has given the parties in a lawsuit between the state, homeless shelters and homeless sex offenders two weeks to resolve the matter, or he will issue a written opinion on the matter.
The Grand Rapids Press reports that U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist heard arguments Monday in federal court on the case. At the core, the case challenges school safety zones and the rights of homeless sex offenders.
Currently, Grand Rapids area shelters say they are forced to reject homeless people from their shelters because they are within 1000 feet of a school zone. State law prohibits registered sex offenders from residing in a school safety zone.
Shelters say they are stuck between a rock and hard place, forced to possibly harm the very people — the homeless — they believe they need to care for.
This challenge comes after a homeless sex offender froze to death last year after being turned away from shelters. It also follows a state appeals court ruling that determined homeless sex offenders don’t have to register because they do not have a place of residence.
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