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.
KALAMAZOO — With the constant din of volunteers talking and phones ringing behind him, City Commissioner David Anderson sat on a metal folding chair at campaign headquarters and explained his reluctant entry into the battle over a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in this southwest Michigan city. “I didn’t run to work on this issue,” he said, [...]
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.
KALAMAZOO — A member of a Kalamazoo City Commission subcommittee charged with making a recommendation to the full commission regarding a controversial human rights ordinance does not want the original purpose of the legislation to be carved away.
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