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.
Less than twenty-four hours after the Michigan state house overwhelmingly approved the passage of a package of bills to expand the state’s Ethnic Intimidation Act, a California mother of a murdered transgender teen encourage the state senate to move on the bills.
Sylvia Guerrero, the mother of slain transgender 17 year-old Gwen Araujo, told Michigan Messenger and Between the Lines, the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender weekly newspaper, that the Michigan Senate should act on the bills and pass them.
“It is very important to pass this,” Guerrero said over coffee in a Lansing cafe. “I would encourage them [legislators who are opposed to the bills] to go out and to meet people that are effected by this. And that would even include me, and I would invite them to visit me or to talk to me. I would open that invitation.”
And while the bills face an uncertain future in the state senate, Guerrero has a message for supporters of the legislation as well.
“For those of you who are feeling frustrated that it is in the wrong hands or it is not going to go through, I ask you to pray and to have faith because God is really moving mountains,” she said. “We need to keep trying and we need to keep fighting the good fight. ”
Guerrero was in Lansing to speak at Michigan State University as part of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
This article was co-published on Pridesource.com.
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