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.
Residents in Holland who are not happy with the June vote by its city council shooting down a human rights ordinance are not giving up.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Two organizations, one a student group and one of people in the Holland community, are pushing the administration at Hope College to change the college’s official stance on homosexuality. They plan to present petitions calling for the removal of that language to the board of trustees soon. The Grand Rapids Press reports:
Joel G. Bouwens, chairman of the Hope College Board of Trustees, is calling an effort by a group of alumni to get the college to revise its stand on homosexuality “offensive” and accusing them of engaging in “ambush journalism.” The group petitioned the board after Hope refused to let Dustin Lance Black, an Academy Award [...]
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 [...]
Hope College officials are sticking by their guns in demanding that Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black can come to campus to speak, but only on the topic of screenwriting. Officials say Black is barred from discussing gay rights, because he is an advocate for them. Black wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for the film “Milk,” [...]
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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