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 than 100 graduates of the University of Michigan Law School walked out of their own Senior Day celebration to protest the choice of Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a man with a long track record of anti-gay politics, as the speaker for the event.
The Ann Arbor Journal reports:
A small group of the seniors had an audience with the senator on Saturday morning, but in the end, the walkout still went down and it was even bigger than Andrew Selbst, unoffical spokesman for the protesting seniors, had hoped. His conservative estimate was that about 40 students would walk out, but more than 100 students joined him in the lobby while Portman spoke. About 60 percent of the graduates wore rainbow buttons or ribbons on their gowns or rainbow tassels on their caps…
Portman was not shouted down. When his name was mentioned in Caminker’s opening remarks, there were no audible boos. When Cormac Joseph Kerins paused briefly during his introduction of Portman, about a third of the graduating class filed into the lobby quietly. A senior who chose to sit through Portman’s speech gave the “all-clear” and the graduates quietly retook their seats in the auditorium.
Here’s a Youtube video showing the walkout:
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