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.
In a highly unusual move, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission — a constitutionally-mandated state agency empowered to enforce the state’s laws against discrimination — unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday condemning Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell for his strident criticism and harassment of University of Michigan student leader Chris Armstrong.
The resolution explicitly calls for Shirvell to be fired, saying that it hopes the upcoming disciplinary hearing scheduled by Attorney General Mike Cox “will result in the removal of this individual from an important public position.”
But it goes further than that, calling on Cox to do a thorough investigation and release information on whether Shirvell was involved in any cases that involved the application of anti-discrimination laws or played any role in the department’s advocacy on legislation involving those things.
The resolution calls on Cox to “immediately and publicly disclose the specific role(s) and responsibility(ies) of Assistant Attorney General Shirvell as it relates to the evaluation, execution and/or disposition of pending legislation, amicus briefs, and/or all other matters within the jurisdiction of the Office of the Attorney General, including but not limited to the issues of hate crime (bias motivated crime), bullying, and Elliott Larsen civil rights protections.”
The resolution also calls on Congress to pass hate crime and anti-bullying legislation, both of which have passed the House in recent years and been stalled in the Senate.
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