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.
The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal group founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza, has signed on to represent a group of citizens in Hamtramck to oppose the city’s human rights ordinance, which includes protections for gays against discrimination. That citizens group is called Hamtramck Citizens Opposing “Special Rights” Discrimination. This group has [...]
[COMMENTARY] In the same week that a 14-year-old “gay rights advocate” in Wayland Union High School on the west side of the state was assaulted for her advocacy, there was another story coming out of Macomb County in the state’s east side. The east-side story told a tale of a group of 20-30 African-American males [...]
Two girls, both 14, have been charged with aggravated assault in connection with videotaped beating that occurred on June 10 in Wayland Union High School. The two girls reportedly beat the 14-year-old victim because she was a “gay rights advocate,” according to media reports. Police had wanted to charge the girls with hate crimes, but [...]
LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a domestic-partners health benefits case that experts say has national implications. The case, Pride at Work v. Granholm, challenges whether an amendment voters added to the state Constitution in 2004 prevents public employers from offering the benefits to same-sex couples. The amendment defines marriage [...]
JACKSON — Marc Adams was allowed to watch only one television program as a child, Jerry Falwell’s “Old Time Gospel Hour.” And even then, he said, he could only see the first half hour. The second half was Falwell’s preaching, something his fundamentalist Baptist minister father thought was too liberal. By accident, one night Adams [...]
LANSING — Pamela Zeller-Drake remembers when her then 14-year-old son came home from school with a smiley face button and a rainbow ribbon on his shirt. “I said to him, honey is there anything you want to talk about? He was like, Mom what are you talking about?” Zeller-Drake told a candle light vigil of [...]
Every time I see a reference to the group Focus on the Family, I think of someone I cared about very deeply who headed up an AIDS support group in Florida. Like all of us whose lives have been made richer by knowing many gay and lesbian people, she saw time and time again families [...]
After years of stalling, the University of Michigan is poised to adopt a policy protecting its students, faculty and staff from discrimination based on gender identity and expression. Continued -
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