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.
Federal agents are trying to figure out who is responsible for leaving a device that damaged a women’s clinic that provides abortions in Detroit.
The Associated Press reports:
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said in an email Wednesday that the exterior of the Summit Women’s Center was burned and a window was broken by the object, which officials declined to describe. The package was left outside the clinic sometime between the afternoon of July 16 and the morning of July 18.
FBI officials say this could be a violation of a federal act that makes it a crime to injure, intimidate or interfere with those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health care services.
The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for any information leading to the identification and arrest of those involved.
The Summit Women’s Center did not shut down as a result of the incident.
According to the clinic website the center has operated since 1973 and was one of the first in Michigan to offer low-cost abortions.
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