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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Posts Tagged ICE

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Federal agents accused of harassing immigrants in Detroit

By Eartha Jane Melzer | 04.06.11 | 3:09 pm

Immigrant rights activists in Detroit say U.S. immigration enforcement officers are following Latino immigrants as they take their kids to school and attend church.

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ICE arrests 77 in West Michigan

By Todd A. Heywood | 01.21.11 | 4:00 pm

A four day operation conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in seven Michigan counties has resulted in the detention of 77 people accused of immigration crimes.

Have no fear, ICE is on the case

By Todd A. Heywood | 05.18.10 | 7:44 pm

In one of those abundantly obvious statements spokespeople sometimes make, the case of Mohammad Abdollahi and two other undocumented youth detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona this afternoon has provided the best “well, duh” statement yet: “We have reason to believe they might be in the country unlawfully,” [Vincent] Picard said.

We get email: DHS asks for modification to blog post

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 12.15.08 | 12:40 pm

Like other media outlets, from time to time we get email — some of it angry, some of it appreciative. But this is a first: a request from the Department of Homeland Security to modify a blog post published last week, in regards to illegal immigrants cleaning Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff’s home. Mind you, DHS [...]

Who said irony was dead? Illegal immigrants cleaned DHS Secretary Chertoff’s home

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 12.11.08 | 2:18 am

A cleaning firm employing illegal immigrants cleaned the home of Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, according to a report in the Washington Post today.

VIDEO: Federal agents make immigration arrests at East Lansing’s El Azteco Oct. 19

By Todd A. Heywood | 10.28.08 | 9:41 pm

Outraged owner of restaurant famous among generations of Michigan State University students says workers were documented