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.
A new study by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, a legal scholar at the Michigan State University College of Law, concludes that Indian tribes are almost universally denied a hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court when they file for the Court to hear a case. The abstract of that study says:
A new AP/Yahoo survey shows that there may be enough latent racism among Democrats and independents to cost Obama the election in November.
Larry King was a flamboyant 15-year-old murdered in February in what some have labeled a gay-bias crime. Newsweek’s coverage of the murder shows exactly why anti-bias laws have to be expanded in Michigan — because mainstream media is still blaming victims [COMMENTARY] Sitting on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday morning waiting for a press [...]
[COMMENTARY] Since the dust-up began about race and Barack Obama, I’ve thought a lot about the movie “Bulworth.” Warren Beatty plays a jaded politician who sheds the scales over his eyes and begins to truly understand the challenge of race in America. His character Bulworth says: But we got Americans with families that can’t even [...]
[COMMENTARY] Recently, in liberal, enlightened Ann Arbor, at a home accessory store, I was in the checkout line behind an older black couple. The cashier asked the man for ID as he paid with a credit card. She took my credit card without question. I noticed this small difference, but didn’t ask the clerk why [...]
For much of the Democratic primary season, Sen. Barack Obama has strategically avoided race by attempting to transcend it. In his ambitious speech responding to criticism of his affiliation with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Obama took the issue head on and placed it at the center of political conversation. The candidate of unity laid [...]
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