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.
Thank goodness Senator Lindsey Graham isn’t one of our Michigan senators. It’s as if the man lives on a different planet and only popped in for a quick visit when he said at a McCain campaign event here in Michigan,
[COMMENTARY] During his visit to the U.S., Pope Benedict XVI spoke to and met with 200 leaders of the world’s other major religious faiths — Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish. Though he clearly intended his speech to sound a note of conciliation, from the standpoint of someone like me, standing apart from all those religious [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a lawsuit against Salem Township in Washtenaw County, Mich., on behalf of two residents who were escorted out of a meeting of the township Board of Trustees for criticizing the township supervisor during public comment time. According to the legal complaint, which was filed against both [...]
A looming court battle over a Michigan high school’s refusal to allow the formation of a student club that opposed the school’s policy on surveillance cameras in the school was over before it ever really began. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan earlier this week sent a letter to the administration of Ann Arbor [...]
[COMMENTARY] Michigan State University is in the middle of a major controversy over the limits of free speech on campus, a controversy that has been repeated at other universities for decades. The student leadership, Associated Students of MSU, has called on the university to adopt a hate-speech code in the wake of one student group, [...]
The Associate Students of Michigan State University, the undergraduate student governing body, is planning to vote on a resolution about hate speech at a meeting at 6:30 Thursday night. The meeting will take place on the third floor of the Student Personnel Building. The student legislators will consider the resolution “A Bill to Address the [...]
U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood has ruled in favor of a group of anti-war protesters in Ferndale who had been arrested for encouraging motorists to honk their horn in support of peace. Starting in December 2002, protesters began holding a weekly vigil every Monday afternoon on the corner of Woodward Avenue and Nine Mile [...]
[COMMENTARY] Over the last few months, Central Michigan University has seen a minor disagreement between a student and a professor turn into a national news story and now a potential lawsuit. The situation began when Dennis Lennox, a CMU junior, began questioning why Prof. Gary Peters, who teaches American government at CMU, was allowed to [...]
[COMMENTARY] Michigan State University is in the middle of a difficult community debate about the difference between free speech and hate speech. And more important, should hate speech be protected speech. The university has had to confront this debate head-on because the MSU chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has sponsored talks [...]
EAST LANSING — With a heavy police presence and tight security Chris Simcox of the controversial Minutemen Civilian Defense Corps, an anti-immigration group, spoke to about 25 supporters Tuesday on the Michigan State University campus. At least 15 officers were on duty at Conrad Hall and a dozen MSU officials were also present for the [...]
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