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 group of Royal Oak High School teens will be featured in an MTV program which airs at 1:30 Thursday. The program, called “If You Really Knew Me,” drew together students from various social groups in the school allowing them to interact and discover their commonalities.
In a 4-3 vote Tuesday night, the Saline Community School Board voted down an amendment to the school district’s nondiscrimination policy which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity, reports AnnArbor.com. The vote has been a contentious issue for weeks in the community, and culminated in nearly three hours of public testimony about the [...]
In the wake of a rash of high profile bullying-related suicides in the last few weeks, students at Michigan State University and members of the greater Lansing community gathered on campus for a candle light vigil Wednesday night.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is using her weekly radio address, released Friday, to ratchet up the pressure on the state senate to act on anti-bullying legislation. Legislation passed the Michigan House Thursday on a 76-29 vote. But it is now on its way to the Republican controlled state senate, which activists say has been the legislative [...]
As state lawmakers continue to haggle over whether or not to pass anti-bullying legislation — and what that should look like — another parent who lost a child to suicide is speaking up. Cadillac resident Tom Harrison and his wife P.K. have begun speaking to schools across the state about the bullying and suicide of [...]
A spokesperson for Gov. Jennifer Granholm Tuesday said Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) was “wrong” when he characterized the freeze on the state’s anti-bullying legislation. In an interview with Michigan Messenger, Kuipers, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, said the legislation was stalled because lawmakers were having trouble defining bullying.
The U.S. Department of Justice says it has reached an out of court settlement with the Mohawk Central School District in New York State over ant-gay and gender related bullying incidents there. This is the first time the federal government has intervened in a lawsuit related to bullying. A press release from the DOJ alleges [...]
The Grand Rapids Press won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Wednesday against Coopersville Area Public Schools. The Press reports it sued the district to force the release of the monetary awards the district agreed to in settling a lawsuit over hazing incidents in the school.
News last week of the suicide of a 12-year-old middle school student in Michigan’s upper peninsula has activists and lawmakers renewing their calls for swift action on stalled legislation that supporters say would help prevent bullying.
LANSING — Haslett Community Schools Superintendent Mike Duda is taking heat for what some community members call cultural insensitivity and racism in a PowerPoint presentation he gave to teachers, staff and board members on Tuesday.
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