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.
Since July 19, the Michigan Department of Corrections no longer bars HIV-positive inmates from working in food service positions. HIV-positive prisoners had been barred from such jobs, considered some of the most desirable, as well as the highest paying, jobs in the prison system, for years by departmental policy. The policy first came to light [...]
Advocates for the poor say Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s amended budget proposal for FY 2011, which calls for $600 million in budget cuts and no new revenues, will further diminish the state’s ability to serve the needs of residents during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Nine months after state lawmakers and the governor approved an operational budget for the state, the Michigan Department of Corrections has turned back to the legislature to ask for more money.
The controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing will no longer be recognized by the Michigan Department of Corrections or allowed to operate within the Michigan prison system.. John Cordell, spokesman for MDOC, released the following statement to Michigan Messenger late Thursday afternoon:
LANSING — A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections announced Monday that the department was reviewing its affiliation with the controversial ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone of Lansing.
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