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 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.
The ACLU of Michigan is demanding that the Michigan State Police turn over documents relating to a technology they possess that allows them to scan and copy a wide range of data from cell phones without the owner of the phone even knowing they’re being searched.
The ACLU of Michigan has written a letter to a second Michigan school, John Glenn High School in Westland, calling on them to stop their policy of censoring access to pro-LGBT websites from school computers.
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information about the passage of a bill that allows the state to appoint Emergency Financial Managers with nearly dictatorial powers to oversee municipalities and school districts.
The ACLU sent letters to public schools around the country, including Rochester High School in Michigan, demanding that they change the filters on their computers to stop preventing students from accessing LGBT websites.
Planned action Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to take up a bill to ban partial birth abortions has drawn sharp criticisms not only of abortion rights advocates, but from the Republican leadership.
In 2010, Michigan Messenger uncovered a variety of policy related stories in the area of crime. From sex offender list policy, to allegations of sexual assault at Michigan State University, here are the top five stories of crime and punishment from Michigan Messenger.
A 2006 policy guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health that places some HIV-positive people on a statewide list without recourse for being removed from the list has advocates raising concerns about its legality.
In the latest twist in the truly bizarre history of an important lawsuit, the Michigan Supreme Court has now reversed its reversal of a previous ruling allowing a legal challenge to the state’s woefully inadequate indigent defense system to move forward.
The ACLU of Michigan filed suit against three Michigan cities — Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Livonia — on Wednesday over their local ordinances that ban the use of medical marijuana after a statewide referendum in 2008 legalized its use throughout the state.
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