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.
The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), legislation that adds sexual orientation to the list of forbidden reasons for firing or refusing to hire someone, by a vote of 235 to 184. Surprisingly, the winning margin included three Michigan Republicans with strong records of voting against legislation that advances [...]
In Part One we looked at what the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) proposes to do to protect gays against discrimination. In Part Two we looked at the argument that gays don’t meet the Supreme Court’s criteria as a suspect or protected class. In this installment we’ll look at the argument that the ENDA threatens religious [...]
Michigan Messenger has begun an ongoing series examining major issues and the political rhetoric surrounding those issues. In Part One we looked at what the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, pending in Congress would and wouldn’t do. Today in Part Two we’ll begin to look at the rhetoric being used against the bill. Gary Glenn, president [...]
This is the first installment of what will be an ongoing series examining a particular issue and the political rhetoric surrounding it. We intend to try to correct what we believe is a major deficiency in mainstream journalism, where the practice is generally to report the arguments made by two sides without making any attempt [...]
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