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 White House announced Tuesday that President Barack Obama was throwing his support behind legislation which would effectively kill the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger on Tuesday night slammed fellow contestant for the nomination Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota over allegations a counseling clinic she co-owns with her husband is offering ex-gay therapy.
LANSING — The Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved a resolution Wednesday morning that starts the process to revoke partner benefits for unmarried state workers.
Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head Saturday afternoon at a Congressional meet and greet in her Tucson district. Doctors says the shot went through her head, through her brain and out the other side. She has undergone surgery and is currently listed in critical condition. Police say at least 18 were shot [...]
Gay rights advocates are hailing Wednesday morning’s signing of legislation repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
The U.S. Senate voted 65-31 Saturday to repeal a law which prohibits openly gay citizens from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The vote came mid-afternoon, after the same body voted in the morning 63-33 to invoke closure, or move the bill to the floor for a final vote.
State and national organizations who represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are expressing outrage over t-shirts bearing the slogan “Straight Pride” offered for sale at a Saturday rally of the Tea Party Express.
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has signed a letter, along with Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), demanding that President Barack Obama fire Harry Knox. The Congressmen along with leading Catholics sent the letter to Obama because Knox stood by a March 2009 comment by Knox in which he said the Pope was “hurting people in [...]
Momentarily turning away from the news of Maine’s nail-biter vote apparently won by opponents of civil marriage rights for gays and lesbians, the Human Rights Campaign issued a statement on yesterday’s Kalamazoo vote.
The battle over censorship at WOOD-TV Channel 8 continues. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, put out a press release late Thursday afternoon accusing the Grand Rapids NBC affiliate of colluding with gay rights activists to cancel the family groups’ controversial hour-long paid infomercial called “Speechless: Silencing the Christians.”
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