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.
Activists and leaders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are raising a red flag of concern about the potential for violence, following the attack on a gay 15-year-old in Portage, which sits across the Kalamazoo city limits, where a battle is underway to win approval of a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance.
Opponents of a recently adopted anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo are one step closer to putting the ordinance on hold and forcing a vote on the ordinance by city residents. Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination spokesman Charles Ybema told the Kalamazoo Gazette his group had collected 2,088 signatures. Those signatures were turned over [...]
Proponents of a new anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo have started an online petition to urge Kalamazoo voters to keep the ordinance, approved June 29, on the books, just as opponents have been collecting signatures to put the ordinance up for a public vote.
The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously to approve a controversial antidiscrimination ordinance — the second such ordinance the city body has passed since December 2008. Opponents of the measure, organized into a group calling itself Kalamazoo Citizens Voting No to Special Rights Discrimination wasted no time in announcing it will begin circulating petitions Tuesday to [...]
Jon Hoadley, the executive director of Stonewall Democrats, a national gay rights organization, is returning to his Michigan roots to head up an anticipated fight over an anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo. City officials in the southwest Michigan city passed an ordinance last year, but opponents collected enough signatures to place the ordinance on the ballot. City officials voted to rescind the ordinance, but vow to adopt it again. That vote is expected Monday.
A special committee of the Kalamazoo City Commission is expected to move a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance back to the full commission for final reconsideration. The ordinance was passed last December but was promptly repealed when opponents collected enough signatures to put the measure to another vote.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that the city of Kalamazoo is considering an ordinance that would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation:
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