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.
City council members in nearly insolvent Hamtramck will consider a resolution directing the city manager to investigate receiving emergency and other services from another government entity.
Faced with the possibility of running out of money by March 1, the city of Hamtramck is holding a townhall meeting tonight to seek input on whether to accept an emergency loan from the state of Michigan.
The highly-anticipated Chevy Volt is gaining lots of attention these days as car enthusiasts — and especially green car enthusiasts — track the electric vehicle’s every move. In a story published this afternoon, the New York Times focuses on General Motors’ choice of its Hamtramck plant for final assembly of the electric car. Like many [...]
American Family Association of Michigan President Gary Glenn says the city of Kalamazoo is out of step with other Midwest communities because it adopted a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance which protected citizens from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on, among other things, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. In an email to [...]
HAMTRAMCK — Residents and civil rights advocates are appalled that Asm “Kamal” Rahman, a leading voice in the successful ballot initiative to overturn a local anti-discrimination ordinance last year, is now sitting on the boards of civil rights groups in southeast Michigan.
HAMTRAMCK — Despite a spate of recent troubles and controversies over equal rights in this increasingly diverse and divided Wayne County city, the tone at a meeting sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Conyers to discuss hate crimes legislation he has introduced in Congress was mostly conciliatory and cooperative.
Activists and leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are raising a red flag of concern about the potential for violence, following the attack on a gay 15-year-old in Portage, which sits across the Kalamazoo city limits, where a battle is underway to win approval of a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance.
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 [...]
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 [...]
An attempt to put a referendum on Hamtramck’s November ballot that would strip protections of sexual orientation and gender expression from the Hamtramck human rights ordinance appears to have failed, at least initially. Continued -
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