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.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Republican candidate for Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has issued a statement denying support for lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender people and disavowing her 2002 endorsement by the statewide gay rights group Triangle PAC.
Authorities in Battle Creek have apprehended a suspect in a brutal stabbing case there. Police last week said they thought the stabbing incident was a hate crime, but now say the motive of the attack was robbery, reports the Battle Creek Enquirer. The man, Robert Bungo, 40, was arrested after a high speed chase — [...]
The Obama administration on Tuesday released the nation’s first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). That strategy includes a call for state lawmakers to pass legislation preventing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced this week that it will henceforth require all contractors doing business with HUD to comply not only with federal anti-discrimination law, but with all state and local discrimination laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation as well wherever they operate. In a press [...]
Advocates, legislators are pleased that Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni has dismissed a controversial bio-terrorism charge against a 45-year-old HIV-positive man.
The controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing will no longer be recognized by the Michigan Department of Corrections or allowed to operate within the Michigan prison system.. John Cordell, spokesman for MDOC, released the following statement to Michigan Messenger late Thursday afternoon:
With Oakland county reporting a syphilis outbreak, and Ingham and Kent counties reporting significant new cases of the sexually transmitted infection, advocates and health officials say the state legislature’s budget-carving ways are in part to blame.
Students from at least three rural, mid-Michigan high schools participated in an event they dubbed “straight pride day” last Friday. And while the events were without disruptive incident, they were not without controversy or concern.
On the heels of the suicide of a 12-year-old girl from the UP, Gov. Jennifer Granholm renewed her call for the passage of legislation which would mandate school districts create, implement and enforce policies on student bullying.
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