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.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. spent Tuesday evening at the African American Health Initiative in Lansing explaining the roots and complications of the ongoing foreclosure crisis.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rio Tinto, the company that owns the Kennecott nickel mine near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula, will have to face civil charges of genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea.
In a unanimous vote of the Lansing City Council Monday night, council members passed a resolution opposing HB 5039 and urging the state legislature to “defeat” the bill.
On Thursday, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of bills to make mortgage fraud a felony in the state of Michigan.
The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office has set up checkpoints to search cars for drugs around the city of Flint, something that legal experts say is almost certain to be found unconstitutional by a federal court if challenged.
Jay Kaplan, attorney with the ACLU of Michigan’s LGBT Project, testified this morning against two bills that would prohibit public employers — universities, municipal and state government agencies — from providing benefits to the domestic partners of employees.
Controversial anti-gay minister Bradlee Dean and his evangelical band/ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International (YCR) are suing The American Independent News Network’s senior reporter, Andy Birkey, and are threatening to also sue our site The Minnesota Independent. Rachel Maddow, who also reported about Dean on her MSNBC show, is also named in the suit, which [...]
Activists and civil libertarians are concerned about proposed legislation from a Republican lawmaker that would gut local non-discrimination ordinances that offer protections to groups not covered by the state’s civil rights law.
Participants of the Occupy Wall Street-inspired Occupy Lansing will protest the downtown Lansing branch of Chase Bank Tuesday afternoon. In a press release sent out this morning, the protests were explained: “Chase Bank is one of the abusive lending institutions responsible for the sputtering economy,” said Ian Eberhart, one of the Oct. 18 spokespersons. “The [...]
Gov. Rick Snyder has established a bipartisan commission to investigate how to improve the legal defense services provided to low-income people accused of crimes.
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