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.
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The Haslett Board of Education on Monday night referred to its policy committee the task of developing new policies to address issues arising from a 2007 drunk-shaming incident that came to the public’s attention recently.
While officials of the Haslett Public Schools continue to claim they are unable to take any action against teachers involved in a June 2007 drunk-shaming incident, a Michigan State University law professor, who is also a Haslett parent, disagrees.
Saying that the details revealed in an investigation of an Ingham County teacher’s “drunk shaming” are “shocking to everybody,” State Rep. Mark Meadows, a Democrat from East Lansing, says that some sort of action needs to be taken. The Haslett Public Schools “need to do something about this,” Meadows said in lengthy interview Tuesday morning. “This kind of undermines [the school district's] credibility.”
One of the men involved in the controversial Haslett drunk shaming incident has resigned his post as girls’ varsity basketball coach for the Haslett schools. Timothy Beebe, 40, resigned Thursday, reports the Lansing State Journal, saying he wanted to protect the girls who play on his team.
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — An incident of “drunk shaming” and drug use among teachers from the Haslett Public Schools has drawn the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, a spokesman says. “We were already involved and watching.”
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — A police report that details an evening of troubling incidents among a group of Haslett Public Schools teachers involving drug use and “drunk shaming” is prompting questions about the teachers’ behavior and institutional accountability in this suburban community near East Lansing.
LANSING — Haslett Community Schools Superintendent Mike Duda is taking heat for what some community members call cultural insensitivity and racism in a PowerPoint presentation he gave to teachers, staff and board members on Tuesday.
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