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.
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Rally for Justice demonstration at Central Michigan University has begun, without many of the buses carrying members of the National Council for Community Empowerment and Council of Baptist Pastors from across the state. CMU students are marching down main street towards Isabella County building at the time of this report. Weather conditions are believed to have delayed buses from Detroit, Grand Rapids and Benton Harbor. The campus appears to have received 3 inches of snow overnight. Police from multiple agencies are on duty and are monitoring the event. The buses are still expected to arrive soon at CMU.
The protest was put together to pressure Isabella county prosecutor Larry Burdick into prosecuting a male CMU student who admitted to hanging four nooses in a campus classroom last month.
Watch Michigan Messenger for more details as this event unfolds.
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