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.
More details are emerging about the behavior of former Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, including the fact that he has previously been warned not to use state resources in his obsessive crusade against a gay student leader at the University of Michigan.
AnnArbor.com reports:
Former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell was warned about using state resources to launch anti-gay attacks on politicians two months before he began targeting the University of Michigan’s student body president, newly released documents show.
The earlier warning stemmed from an e-mail Shirvell sent at 11:57 a.m. Feb. 3 to a former state representative before a protest planned at the Capitol building. The nature of the protest isn’t clear.
“The grassroots will NEVER let you and your (gay slur) ….. hijack our pro-life, pro-family party in pursuit of your PERVETED radical homosexual agenda,” Shirvell wrote to former state Rep. Leon Drolet and others.
A recipient of the e-mail contacted the attorney general’s office, prompting his supervisors to warn Shirvell not to use state resources that way again and not to “engage in that conduct again,” according to an investigation report compiled by the attorney general’s office and obtained by AnnArbor.com.
The warning didn’t seem to sink in for Shirvell, who apparently went on to use state computers to make several Facebook postings and then lied to investigators and told them he’d made them from his home computer — despite payroll records showing him at work at the time they were made.
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