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.
An auto industry blog called The Truth About Cars reports that a prominent Chinese business publication thinks China may look to buy up GM and Chrysler in a fire sale:
ANN ARBOR — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the University of Michigan Crisler Arena Sunday in support of the Beijing Olympics waving flags and chanting “Dalai Liar,” “CNN Liar” and “We love Tibet. We love China.” While the Dalai Lama taught on compassion and wisdom for two hours and then delivered the annual Peter M. [...]
The Dalai Lama taught about wisdom, compassion, and the nature of the self, but not politics in two, two-hour Dharma talks Saturday at the University of Michigan. Speaking to a reverent crowd of thousands, he urged people to adhere to their own traditions, saying that a multiplicity of traditions and religions serves the diversity of [...]
ANN ARBOR — Taking a diplomatic stance, His Holiness the Dalai Lama reiterated his full support of the Beijing Olympics, despite calls for a boycott over Tibet, but said the record of People’s Republic of China on human rights, the environment and religious freedom continues to be a concern. Speaking with media this afternoon at [...]
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa has cautioned against a meeting between Canadian members of parliament (MPs) and His Holiness the Dalai Lama scheduled for Friday at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Although such statements can sound alarming, experts say that in practice, they have little or no effect on economic and diplomatic relations. [...]
“Michiganders need some upliftment” in the midst of their economic suffering, said Rimpoche Nawang Gelek, the man who invited the Dalai Lama for this week’s visit to Ann Arbor. Gelek Rimpoche, the founder of Jewel Heart, a Buddhist organization headquartered in Ann Arbor, told Michigan Messenger that he invited the Dalai Lama to Michigan “to [...]
Cameco Corp., the Canadian uranium company that is partnered with Bitterroot Resources Ltd. and Trans Superior Resources Inc. to explore for uranium in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula, is negotiating with China to supply uranium for power plants. Desperate for energy and struggling with air pollution from coal-fired power plants, China plans to build 14 new [...]
The University of Michigan is selling souvenir medallions and other items made by workers in sweatshop conditions at a factory in China, according to a new report by an international human-rights group. The factory is the same one that has been producing crucifixes that were sold at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and [...]
The Archdiocese of New York and a national Christian retailer are questioning some of the findings in a report that they sold crucifixes manufactured under sweatshop conditions in a Chinese factory. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, pulled the crucifixes off its shelves last week after the National Labor Committee (NLC), [...]
Crucifixes marketed in the United States by a Christian retail group are made in a Chinese sweatshop with working conditions that are appalling even by Chinese legal standards, according to a report by a U.S. human rights organization. The conditions include 100-hour, seven-day work weeks, mandatory overtime and wages as low as nine cents an [...]
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