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.
Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle has been accused of meeting an 18-year-old man on the website Craigslist.
The Saugatuck Board of Education is considering a controversial proposal to include a video about being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to its eighth grade sex education curriculum.
One Michigan has announced that it will host vigils in Detroit and Lansing Tuesday to continue calls for the passage of the DREAM Act and to support three undocumented youth and a supporter arrested Monday during a sit-in protest at Sen. John McCain’s Tucson, AZ office. The DREAM Act, supporters say, would create a path [...]
A local Shiawassee County school board plans to hold a meeting as soon as Monday to rescind a decision it made Oct. 23 to order the removal of an extracurricular club display honoring gay history month.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network has teamed up with the Ad Council to produce a series of public service announcements to address the use of the phrase “that’s so gay,” in youth culture. The phrase is used to describe something the speaker dislikes.
A referendum on the local ballot in Hamtramck that repeals a city human rights ordinance passed in July has succeeded. A final count is not yet known. Derek Smiertka, executive director of Michigan Equality, expressed disappointment but said local supporters will likely place another referendum on the ballot in the next two years to reverse [...]
Congress holds hearings on controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy The gay blog and media outlets are abuzz with Wednesday’s hearings about repealing the ban on gays in the military. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) even went so far as to liveblog from the event. The interesting thing about all this is, while there were [...]
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