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.
Here’s a montage of photos and audio from Saturday night’s “Join the Impact” candlelight rally in Lansing, Mich., during which students and community members gathered at “The Rock” at Michigan State University in support of civil rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Approximately 150 people braved the cold and windy evening to attend the event in Lansing, while an additional 200 rallied in Detroit.
The rally was organized by the Alliance of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Students of MSU and was part of an international protest. Other Michigan cities hosting events included Detroit, Kalamazoo, Mt. Pleasant, Grand Rapids and Marquette.
A rally attendee holds a candle while listening to speakers at a Prop. 8 rally Sat. night in East Lansing.
The national “Join the Impact” protest was created by an Oregon resident and coordinated over the Internet. According to Join the Impact’s Web site, protests and rallies were planned in more than 300 cities in the U.S. and in 10 different countries, in response to passage last week of Proposition 8 in California. Prop. 8 amended California’s Constitution to recognize marriage only between a man and a woman.
Cities around the nation holding vigils this evening included San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York and Boston, with attendance at some of the events numbering in the tens of thousands. The largest so far appears to be in San Diego with approximately 50,000 marchers.
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