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.
Three Michigan State University students were arrested Thursday evening for refusing to leave the administration building offices of President Lou Anna K. Simon.
Sen. John Gleason, who last week staged a sit-in to protest the failure of the state legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, has released a Youtube video encouraging people to contact their legislature and pressure them to vote for the bill.
A second student walkout in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement is planned for today and students at two more Michigan colleges — Central Michigan and Michigan State — are planning to join in. The protest is scheduled for 4:30 pm.
The Michigan Senate may take up a non-enumerated anti-bullying bill Tuesday morning in its regular session.
A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing).
Nearly 1,000 Michigan State University students, administrators and community members packed into a large lecture hall at Conrad Hall on the campus to discuss what administration officials have called a “rash” of racial incidents on the campus.
Gov. Rick Snyder’s campaign to reduce obesity may be impeded by federal agricultural subsidies that make junk food cheaper than fruits and vegetables.
Almost 54 percent of the children in Detroit are living in poverty, new U.S. Census data shows, and cuts to education may make matters worse.
A small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments.
The man named to head the newly created Education Achievement System only recently resigned as superintendent of a school system in Missouri that is so under-achieving that the state has removed its accreditation.
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