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.
Michigan hunters who use medical marijuana may be able to keep their guns despite a recent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire Arms memo that says marijuana users may not own firearms.
With significant cuts pushed through the GOP-controlled legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, many school boards are struggling to pass austere budgets to reflect the large gaps in state funding.
In spite of a plea from Jackson’s mayor and city manager, the Michigan Department of Treasury will not be reviewing the city’s finances as a potential first step towards a state take over of the city.
By requesting state review of the finances in their cities, the mayor of Jackson and a citizen in Allen Park have initiated a process that could lead to takeover by an Emergency Manager or other changes.
The city of Jackson has added itself to an ever growing number of municipalities in the state to pass a medical marijuana moratorium.
David Smith bought a small house in Leoni Township as part of starting his life over again following a divorce. But when he arrived at the house on Friday, he was greeted with racist graffiti scrawled in green paint on the side of the white house, reports the Jackson Citizen Patriot. The words read: “No [...]
The Associated Press is reporting that eight members of the Hutaree Militia, based in Adrian, were arrested by federal agents this weekend because they planned to kill police officers. A ninth suspect is still at large. According to documents unsealed this morning, the militia members planned to kill police officers. Once those officers were being [...]
In an exclusive interview with Michigan Messenger, Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the civil rights group is likely to list Battalion 14 Michigan Division on its 2010 list of active hate groups. “I have very little doubt we will list them as a hate group,” Potok said. He [...]
While most Michigan residents were gearing up for March Madness basketball or the historic U.S. House vote on health care reform on Sunday, Jackson residents were treated to the coming out party of a new white nationalist group. The new self-described National Socialist group — Battalion 14 Michigan — hosted a White Pride Worldwide march [...]
2009 saw a number of issues regarding equality for the LGBT community come to the forefront in local communities and in the state legislature, including human rights ordinances, anti-bullying and hate crimes legislation and a nascent movement to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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