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.
Opponents of a Traverse City ordinance that protects against anti-LGBT discrimination in housing and employment have collected enough signatures for a referendum on the measure.
2009 saw a number of issues regarding equality for the LGBT community come to the forefront in local communities and in the state legislature, including human rights ordinances, anti-bullying and hate crimes legislation and a nascent movement to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Last week, voters in Kalamazoo passed the city’s new anti-discrimination ordinance. This week, city employees are figuring out how to implement it. According to a story in Sunday’s Kalamazoo Gazette, the city’s new protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity require that individuals alleging discrimination file a written complaint with the city manager.
KALAMAZOO — With the constant din of volunteers talking and phones ringing behind him, City Commissioner David Anderson sat on a metal folding chair at campaign headquarters and explained his reluctant entry into the battle over a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in this southwest Michigan city. “I didn’t run to work on this issue,” he said, [...]
Kalamazoo has suspended its anti-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance has been the subject of much controversy in this southwest Michigan city, leading opponents of the law to collect signatures to force a vote on the measure Nov. 3. Opponents had until yesterday to turn in 1,273 valid signatures to push the vote. The group calling itself [...]
Proponents of a new anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo have started an online petition to urge Kalamazoo voters to keep the ordinance, approved June 29, on the books, just as opponents have been collecting signatures to put the ordinance up for a public vote.
The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously to approve a controversial antidiscrimination ordinance — the second such ordinance the city body has passed since December 2008. Opponents of the measure, organized into a group calling itself Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination wasted no time in announcing it will begin circulating petitions Tuesday to [...]
Supporters say ordinance will increase economic opportunities; opponents claim passage will lead to moral decay.
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