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.
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan’s new primary law that provides voter party preference declarations to the Democratic and Republican parties but forbids that same information to be given to any other political party or organization.
The new primary law, which moved the date of the Michigan primaries up to Jan. 15, requires each voter to sign a piece of paper declaring which party’s primary they wish to vote in prior to being given a ballot. It further required that those voter declarations be given to the chairpersons of the Democratic and Republican parties while simultaneously making it illegal for any other political party, any news organization or any other entity to have access to those records. In its lawsuit, the ACLU represents the Green Party; the Libertarian Party; the Reform Party; and the Metro Times, a news organization.
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