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.
The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal group founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza, has signed on to represent a group of citizens in Hamtramck to oppose the city’s human rights ordinance, which includes protections for gays against discrimination. That citizens group is called Hamtramck Citizens Opposing “Special Rights” Discrimination. This group has [...]
The Dalai Lama taught about wisdom, compassion, and the nature of the self, but not politics in two, two-hour Dharma talks Saturday at the University of Michigan. Speaking to a reverent crowd of thousands, he urged people to adhere to their own traditions, saying that a multiplicity of traditions and religions serves the diversity of [...]
“Michiganders need some upliftment” in the midst of their economic suffering, said Rimpoche Nawang Gelek, the man who invited the Dalai Lama for this week’s visit to Ann Arbor. Gelek Rimpoche, the founder of Jewel Heart, a Buddhist organization headquartered in Ann Arbor, told Michigan Messenger that he invited the Dalai Lama to Michigan “to [...]
Native American song, dance, prayer and a plea for the return of ancestral remains marked the 36th Annual Dance for Mother Earth in Ann Arbor Saturday. Amid drum circles and dance contests in Crisler Arena, Co-Master of Ceremonies Paul Johnson asked the University of Michigan to return the remains of indigenous people to Michigan tribal [...]
A looming court battle over a Michigan high school’s refusal to allow the formation of a student club that opposed the school’s policy on surveillance cameras in the school was over before it ever really began. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan earlier this week sent a letter to the administration of Ann Arbor [...]
Cleanup of polluted groundwater under the city of Ann Arbor and neighboring townships could be hurt by a budget cut. The cleanup depends on oversight by Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality. But last week, Steven Chester, director of the DEQ, announced that an $80 million shortfall threatens his department. “Whatever remediation systems we are paying [...]
Ann Arbor Spark has extended the application deadline for the Fast Track Awards Program to October 1, 2007. The program recognizes companies with outstanding growth year over year. The awards will be presented at a gala event on November 9. Ann Arbor Spark is “a public-private partnership whose mission is to advance innovation-based economic development [...]
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