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.
Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-Holland) says that President Barack Obama didn’t invite him to a tour and speech at the Johnson Controls facility in Holland, and he is crying foul.
President Barack Obama will tour the manufacturing facilities of Johnson Controls in Holland Thursday and supporters of a local ordinance to prohibit discrimination against LGBT people are hailing a last minute move by the company to publicly voice support for the ordinance.
A group of residents who have come together in protest of the Holland City Council’s 5-4 rejection of a human rights ordinance say they will not pursue the option of putting the ordinance up for a public vote.
The Holland City Council has rejected legislation which would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
In a move that critics say unfairly criminalizes medical marijuana the Holland City Council has banned medical marijuana dispensaries from locating within 1,000 feet of a school.
Dustin Lance Black, who won the Oscar for his screenplay “Milk,” has penned an essay on the Daily Beast to discuss his banning from the conservative Christian Hope College earlier this year. Black was in Holland to work on his directorial debut, and he says, he was approached by a youth in a local coffeehouse [...]
Dustin Lance Black, Oscar winning screen writer of the film “Milk,” has been barred from Hope College to participate in a roundtable discussion about gay rights issues because officials say he is “an advocate.” The Holland Sentinel reports that Hope College students invited the writer to their campus for a showing of his film Milk, [...]
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