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.
Police in the small town of Williamston — located about 20 miles east of Lansing — are investigating an alleged incident of cyber-bullying against a 13-year-old middle school student.
Republican Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) and Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) used their Facebook pages in the past week to draw attention to Bridge card holders withdrawing cash from out of state locations. The implication from the posts is that the withdraws are violating state law.
A former candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge Congressman John Dingell has filed a lawsuit against Facebook claiming that the social networking company deleted his account, causing irreparable harm to campaign.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Mark Peterson, a director and spokesperson for the Michigan Positive Action Coalition, says Monday’s Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni’s failure to reject a terrorism charge against an HIV-positive man is “troubling.” “It keeps us in limbo,” says Peterson. “It’s troubling because this case being out there that by just having the virus we [...]
The HIV-as-terrorism case involving 44-year-old Daniel Allen of Clinton Township is now the subject of at least two cyber-protests. Allen was charged with terrorism in Macomb County because he allegedly bit a neighbor during a fight in October. The prosecutor, upon learning Allen was HIV-positive, announced he would seek additional charges from the original assault [...]
With just two weeks until Detroit’s special mayoral election, the two rival campaigns are heating up. And since pollsters are calling it a close election, it might not take much to swing the vote. That’s a good sign for interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who narrowly trailed Bing by two percentage points (27-29 percent) in [...]
Yes, General Motors has a Facebook page, a Twitter account, multiple blogs and a YouTube channel and they’re using them to convince the public that they need billions of dollars from the government.
EAST LANSING — Tom Wibert, chief of the East Lansing Police Department, told Michigan Messenger this morning that it was “less and less likely” that charges will be filed against the Facebook account holder who organized the Saturday night street party that turned into a riot. “At this point, the prosecutor is saying no,” Wibert [...]
EAST LANSING — The Facebook account holder who instigated a Cedar Fest street party that led to a riot here Saturday night could face criminal charges, East Lansing Police Public Information Officer Kym Johnson told Michigan Messenger. “We’re going after anyone who had any part of getting this party started,” Johnson said. “We are going [...]
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