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 Ingham County Circuit Court Judge has ruled that the Capitol Area District Library can ban open carrying of firearms — at least for now.
In court documents responding to a request for release on bond by Tina Stone filed April 9 in federal court, the government lays out a case that the wife of accused Hutaree Christian militia leader Brian Stone was heavily involved in the operations of the group. The federal filing is available here.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Michigan Republican primary for governor. The announcement was made on Cox’s gubernatorial campaign website. From the release:
In a recent conversation with media, future city council members elected just last week revealed a personal yet controversial choice: that they carried concealed weapons for self-protection. As Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley writes, “The majority of city council members will be packing” come January.
Dean Agee, a Kent County Commissioner, is facing charges if careless discharge of a weapon following a July 18 shooting event at his Osceola County property. According to a report in the Grand Rapids Press, Osceola County Sheriff’s officers were dispatched to the property after complaints that a nearby camp ground was taking fire.
LANSING — State Rep. Phil Pavlov wants to prevent the federal government from interfering with the rights of Michigan gun owners. The St. Clair Township Republican introduced legislation, HB 5232, this week which would remove any firearm manufactured and sold in Michigan from federal regulatory oversight. In a statement, after noting the “national threats to [...]
TRAVERSE CITY — Around 50 people, many of them men openly carrying loaded handguns, gathered in a local park over the weekend for a cookout billed as educational outreach on gun owners’ rights. Participants in the “Open Carry Picnic” ate hot dogs and chips while wearing holstered hand guns at Sunset Park off the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay. As children played on the merry-go-round and tourists cruised the lakefront, the gathering was quiet but showed some signs of tension.
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