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 Oakland County Commissioner and former mayor of Ferndale was forced to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination during the trial of a medical marijuana patient last week.
The Ferndale Police Department is investigating an incident in which a gay couple’s vehicle were scrawled with anti-gay epithets, and a home splattered with paint.
At an appearance of the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce last week, GOP candidate for governor Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland said he would support an increase in the state’s sales tax. He also said it should be expanded to services and other items not currently covered. Those increased taxes would be used to fill [...]
Hope College officials are sticking by their guns in demanding that Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black can come to campus to speak, but only on the topic of screenwriting. Officials say Black is barred from discussing gay rights, because he is an advocate for them. Black wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for the film “Milk,” [...]
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