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.
Activists and leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are raising a red flag of concern about the potential for violence, following the attack on a gay 15-year-old in Portage, which sits across the Kalamazoo city limits, where a battle is underway to win approval of a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance.
In an exclusive interview with Michigan Messenger and Between the Lines (BTL) newspaper, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee acknowledged for the first time that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is victimized by violence, but he held firm to his conviction that the civil rights struggle of the African-American community and that of [...]
Police in Wayland, Mich., are investigating an attack by two 14-year-old girls on a third girl in Wayland Union High School. The victim was identified as a supporter of gay rights. The June 10 attack was purposely recorded on a cell phone video by another female, police say. Wayland is located south of Grand Rapids [...]
[COMMENTARY] GRAND RAPIDS — Hidden away behind a long winding corridor, six floors up a freight elevator in 50 Louis NW in downtown Grand Rapids, is an art gallery brimming with powerful ideas. It is the Open Concepts Gallery, which is currently featuring a video installation by Prof. Kim Roberts of Grand Valley State University. [...]
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