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.
WOOD-TV Channel 8, under pressure from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists in Grand Rapids and from Washington D.C. has announced it will not air a controversial special from the American Family Association. The film can be viewed here.
The LGBT community continues to seethe nearly 24 hours after the announcement that Dr. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif, would provide the invocation at the inaugural ceremonies of President-elect Barack Obama. Warren supported the controversial ballot initiative Proposition 8 in California, claiming that allowing gays to marry would infringe on [...]
While the community made up of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and allies have been quietly complaining behind the scenes that the community has not been visible enough during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the complaints have gone silent. They have been replaced with inspiration.
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