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.
Three Michigan State University students were arrested Thursday evening for refusing to leave the administration building offices of President Lou Anna K. Simon.
In spite of ongoing criticism related to the March 16 response during protests at the state Capitol by Lansing police officers, the city has refused to release policies and internal emails about the incident and subsequent changes in police policy.
In a contentious meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the Lansing City Council, Lansing Chief of Police Teresa Szymanski defended her decision to withdraw officers from the Capitol on March 16 during union protests and admitted that there was no official policy on handling protesters.
The release of radio transmissions between the Lansing police officers and the dispatch center on March 16 are raising questions about why Lansing Police Chief Teresa Szymanski ordered officers to leave the Capitol during a protest that resulted in more than a dozen arrests.
As earlier reported by Michigan Messenger, activists in Detroit say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a school in order to detain an undocumented resident.
The eight undocumented youth who have been protesting in Atlanta were arrested late this afternoon.
A four day operation conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in seven Michigan counties has resulted in the detention of 77 people accused of immigration crimes.
In an editorial Tuesday, the Grand Rapids Press called on state lawmakers to fix holes and ambiguities in the state’s medical marijuana law.
In an interview Thursday morning, Chambers County, Texas Sheriff Joe LaRive says the undocumented workers arrested in Winnie Wednesday were waiting to meet Hallmark Industrial owner Phillip Hallmark in order to get paid for their work on the oil spill in Battle Creek.
Authorities in Chambers County, Texas say they have arrested 42 undocumented workers — likely the ones who left Michigan recently — on chartered buses in Winni, Texas, reports Fox 4 in Beaumont, Texas.
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