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 man facing felony charges after a state trooper illegally disclosed his HIV-positive status to his ex-girlfriend now wishes he would have informed her of the infection himself, but advocates say that breaking down the stigma attached to HIV will help those like him overcome their fear and be more open with loved ones.
Michigan Democrats are raising questions about GOP candidate Rick Snyder’s history at Gateway. This time the questions are not about sending jobs to China, rather they are about claims of discrimination against women at Gateway while he was CEO, reports the Associate Press.
A Department of Corrections spokesman says a policy barring HIV-positive prisoners from working in food service is in place to prevent transmission through food. But experts say there is no scientific basis for those fears and the Department of Civil Rights is launching a formal investigation into the state policy.
State representative says weak economy coupled with bad credit putting jobs out of reach for those who most need employment
A former Whirlpool worker who said she was punished for associating with African Americans on the job will get another chance to argue her case in federal court.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that the city of Kalamazoo is considering an ordinance that would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department (DPD) on behalf of five officers who were forced to take unpaid leave while pregnant.
An attempt to put a referendum on Hamtramck’s November ballot that would strip protections of sexual orientation and gender expression from the Hamtramck human rights ordinance appears to have failed, at least initially. Continued -
Two lesbian couples, one in Lansing and the other in Grand Rapids, are claiming two major social institutions discriminated against them. Sarah Himes and her partner, Cate, whose last name has not been released, tried to sign up for a family membership rate at the Parkwood YMCA in Okemos. While the organization has the motto: [...]
[COMMENTARY] Most sincerely, thank you, Congress, for doing the right thing for once. You voted almost unanimously across both houses to make it illegal to discriminate based on genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment, passing the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, into law. Two hundred and seventy-six years after this [...]
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