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 male Central Michigan University student has admitted to police that he created and hung four nooses found in a campus classroom on Monday.
CMU police would not identify the student. They said their investigation is nearing completion and they expect to turn it over to the Isabella County Prosecutor early this week.
The nooses, according to a press release on the CMU website, were made of compressed gas line used in lab work. (http://www.news.cmic…)
The incident came to light on Thursday and has sparked one protest. But it was originally reported on Monday, Nov. 12.
The campus has been a lightning rod of racial incidents in the past months, with anti-Native American tracts being distributed on Columbus Day, and recently an anti-Muslim tract was distributed on campus. In April, the campus was littered with anti-gay graffiti, and last year members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM, a neo-Nazi group, based in Cadillac attempted to recruit on the Mt. Pleasant campus.
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