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.
State Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) announced Monday that the controversial clone of Arizona’s immigration law known as SB 1070 will not have a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs. The law has sparked protests in the state.
Mohammad Abdollahi, the gay man from Iran who participated in a protest at Arizona Sen. John McCain’s office earlier this year, has been featured in a report by ABC News. In the piece, immigration experts and advocates discuss the difficulty Abdollahi faces in seeking asylum. Abdollahi came to the U.S. when he was three years [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, said Monday that he intends to file a brief in support of the state of Arizona in the lawsuit filed by the federal government to strike down a controversial new immigration law in that state. It’s not unusual for state attorneys general to [...]
The controversial Arizona immigration law known as SB 1070 has made headlines in Michigan again. This time, it is a series of actions countering the law. Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed suit against Arizona. The lawsuit claims that federal authorities have the right and responsibility to enforce immigration laws in the U.S., not states. [...]
Oakland County Clerk and Ruth Johnson has made the focal point of her campaign for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State a five point plan to keep foreigners from voting in Michigan elections, something that state and local elections officials say is a non-existent problem in the state.
The U.S. State Department has softened rules implemented a couple years ago out of concern that too many refugees from the Middle East were settling in the Detroit area and possibly exacerbating unemployment in the state. The new rules will allow more such refugees to come to the area, which already has a very large [...]
In separate posts on Facebook Saturday, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Bouchard and his Lt. Gov. selection, Terri Lynn Land, bemoaned a planned lawsuit against Arizona by the Obama administration. Bouchard, who is currently the sheriff of Oakland county, started the anti-Obama rants with a Twitter post which was run on Facebook as well, and Land [...]
Congressional candidate Jason Allen and Secretary of State candidates State Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau) and Cameron Brown (R-Sturgis) are sponsors of a Senate bill that would enact Arizona-style immigration reforms in Michigan.
EAST LANSING– About 30 people protested in support of the DREAM Act at the East Lansing office of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Thursday afternoon. After of a series of introductory remarks, including statements from some of the seven youth participating in a hunger strike to force Stabenow to become a co-sponsor of the immigration [...]
With immigration in the news nationally due to a controversial new law in Arizona and the arrest of several protesters, including a Michigan man named Mohammad Abdollahi, pushing for a path to citizenship for young people brought to the U.S. by their parents, several Michigan lawmakers are weighing in on the subject.
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