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 National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) announced Tuesday that its member organizations had tracked a 13 percent increase in violent anti-gay crimes nationwide in 2010, but the numbers in the state of Michigan appear to be mixed.
A Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who attacked another man for unwanted sexual advances was rightly denied the use of “gay panic” as a defense strategy.
David Smith bought a small house in Leoni Township as part of starting his life over again following a divorce. But when he arrived at the house on Friday, he was greeted with racist graffiti scrawled in green paint on the side of the white house, reports the Jackson Citizen Patriot. The words read: “No [...]
LANSING — State Sen. Hansen Clarke says the passage of a federal hate crimes law should spur the state Senate to pass Michigan’s anti-bias crime legislation. “People are still being discriminated against based on the sexual orientation and HIV status, and they need that protection,” the Detroit Democrat said.
After a significant increase in reported bias crimes and related incidents in 2007, Michigan has reported a decrease in reported incidents for 2008. In 2007, the Detroit-based Triangle Foundation, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization which tracks hate-motivated crimes targeting the LGBT community, reported a 133-percent increase in such incidents. Last year, the [...]
LANSING — In a near party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled Michigan House earlier on Wednesday approved two measures to address bias crimes — commonly referred to as hate crimes. The vote for both bills was 66 votes in favor, with 43 opposed. The bill now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate. Similar legislation was moved on an [...]
Dan Levy, chief legal officer of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, announced today that two bills have been introduced in the state House to combat hate crimes. The bills, HB 4835 and HB 4836, were introduced by Rep. Robert Jones (D-Kalamazoo) and Rep. Woodrow Stanley (D-Flint), respectively. HB 4835 will add additional sentencing for [...]
An appearance on ABC’s The View has landed FOX News commentator and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in some hot water. On a recent stop at the women focused talk show to promote his new book, Huckabee rained praise down on the country for electing Barack Obama as the first African American President in history.
The campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama is stressing the Illinois senator’s strong support for passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, which would expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include crimes motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression.
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