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.
In a highly unusual case, a jury will decide — for the time being, at least — whether anti-Muslim Florida Pastor Terry Jones will be allowed to hold a protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday evening.
In late 2009, a Warren resident sued the city for not allowing him to put up a nativity display on public property in the median barrier of a major street there. A federal judge has now ruled in favor of the city in that suit.
The city of Dearborn has denied a permit to a Quran-burning Florida pastor to hold a protest on Good Friday outside of a famous Islamic Center of America mosque in that city.
Pastor Terry Jones, the Florida minister who burned a Quran at his church a few weeks ago, sparking violent protests in Afghanistan, is planning to protest outside a famous mosque in Dearborn — and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office wants to stop him.
A federal court in Detroit has granted a preliminary injunction against the SMART bus system, ordering them to allow an anti-Muslim advertisement to be placed on buses pending the outcome of a full trial on the issue.
The ACLU sent letters to public schools around the country, including Rochester High School in Michigan, demanding that they change the filters on their computers to stop preventing students from accessing LGBT websites.
Albion College President Donna Randall issued a public statement on Wednesday concerning the burning of a gay pride flag on the college campus last month. Randall said that the school’s investigation revealed that a small group of students found the flag in a trash can and decided to burn it. No one else was present [...]
The president of the Howell Education Association has been reprimanded for an in class exchange about LGBT people with one of his students, reports the Livingston Daily. Teacher Jay McDowell was suspended for one day without pay after school officials determined he had violated the First Amendment rights of the student and school policies.
The ACLU of Michigan sent a letter to city officials in Howell, Michigan this week demanding that they respect the First Amendment rights of musician Joseph Flanders, a resident of that city who was told he could not play music for people outside a Dairy Queen even though he had permission from the business owners [...]
The four Christian missionaries who were arrested for — and acquitted of — disturbing the peace for preaching to predominately Muslim festival goers at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June now plan to file a lawsuit against the city of Dearborn for unlawful arrest and violating their First Amendment rights. They will be represented [...]
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