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.
With legislation pending both in the U.S. Congress and the Michigan House of Representatives to require employers to use a new federal immigration database, even conservative and Tea Party groups are speaking out against the idea.
With a raft of controversial social and budgetary bills moving through the Republican-controlled state House, Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) is already looking for a possible new job.
Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) is planning hearings on Sept. 13 to push his anti-undocumented workers legislative agenda.
The Kalamazoo City Commission will consider a resolution on Monday night to oppose proposed legislation modeled after the controversial Arizona immigration law.
With a proposal to replicate a controversial Arizona law targeting immigrants here in Michigan, leaders from business, civil rights groups and law enforcement are speaking out in opposition to the idea.
Undocumented immigrant and lifelong Michigan resident Mohammad Abdollahi is risking deportation and quite possibly execution during a dramatic sit-in protest at John McCain’s headquarters in Arizona today.
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, has introduced legislation to give worker’s compensation to undocumented workers in Michigan. “We’re only one of two states in the nation that does not allow workers that are undocumented to compensate when they are injured on the job,” WILX, the NBC affiliate in Lansing, quotes the first term [...]
Latino lawmakers had long ago given up on the idea that illegal immigrants would receive any sort of subsidized health insurance under a health care reform bill, even if there are strong economic, public health and moral arguments to support the idea.
Michigan Department of Corrections says it’s illegal The Michigan Republican Task Force on Border Security and Immigration Reform — made up of Republican House members Phil Pavlov, Dave Agema, Chuck Moss, and Dave Robertson — released its final report last week, and it contains some harsh recommendations like denying bail to all illegal immigrants and [...]
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