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.
Congressman Justin Amash is one of nine members of Congress, and the only Republican, to vote no on a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as a national motto. The resolution would also encourage the motto to appear on all public federal, state and local buildings.
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR MI) has written a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking for an investigation into whether Pittsfield Township violated the First Amendment rights by rejecting a Muslim group’s application to build a Muslim private school.
Two Michigan state Senators have proposed legislation which would allow counseling students to decline to counsel some clients because doing so would violate their “sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.”
As the city of Dearborn prepares for another Arab International Festival in June, the police have lost another court case involving their attempts to prevent Christian missionaries from proselytizing at the annual event.
The budget compromise announced by Gov. Rick Snyder, House Speaker Jase Bolger and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville contains at least one provision that the governor’s legal counsel has said is unconstitutional and two controversial provisions that have nothing to do with the budget but are part of the conservative social agenda.
Here is the brief filed by the ACLU of Michigan in defense of the free speech rights of Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who was denied the right to protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday. According to TV reports, the ACLU has agreed to represent Jones in an appeal of that ruling.
In an absolutely stunning conclusion, a seven-member jury decided tonight that Pastor Terry Jones cannot hold a protest at the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn.
In a highly unusual case, a jury will decide — for the time being, at least — whether anti-Muslim Florida Pastor Terry Jones will be allowed to hold a protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday evening.
In late 2009, a Warren resident sued the city for not allowing him to put up a nativity display on public property in the median barrier of a major street there. A federal judge has now ruled in favor of the city in that suit.
The city of Dearborn has denied a permit to a Quran-burning Florida pastor to hold a protest on Good Friday outside of a famous Islamic Center of America mosque in that city.
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