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.
Following up on a June surprise, Michigan House Speaker Pro Tem Pam Byrnes on Wednesday announced she had introduced legislation to roll back a 2004 constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage in the state.
If any of the undecided voters in Kalamazoo are New York Times subscribers, then supporters of the anti-discrimination ordinance on the ballot tomorrow just got a nice boost.
While Kalamazoo’s proposed Ordinance 1856 would bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, it’s the second category that has generated the most controversy.
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, [...]
American Family Association of Michigan President Gary Glenn says the city of Kalamazoo is out of step with other Midwest communities because it adopted a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance which protected citizens from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on, among other things, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. In an email to [...]
Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and contender for the GOP nomination for the presidency, says disruptions at two town hall meetings which “got out of contol” were caused by “organized supporters of the Democrats.” Huckabee wrote the observation on his blog, HuckPac.com:
Kalamazoo has suspended its anti-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance has been the subject of much controversy in this southwest Michigan city, leading opponents of the law to collect signatures to force a vote on the measure Nov. 3. Opponents had until yesterday to turn in 1,273 valid signatures to push the vote. The group calling itself [...]
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 [...]
State Rep. Robert Jones, a Kalamazoo Democrat, says he will forgo a third term in the state house and instead set his sights on the state senate seat being vacated by Tom George, a Republican from Kalamazoo. Jones, the former mayor of Kalamazoo, said he will seek the senate seat as a way to demonstrate [...]
Officials in Jackson are gearing up to consider an anti-discrimination ordinance that’s likely to be a lightning rod for conservative activists who have been scrutinizing a similar human rights ordinance in Kalamazoo. After originally slated to be on the city council’s agenda for Tuesday’s meeting, the proposed Jackson ordinance is now scheduled for Aug. 11, according to Bill Ross, Jackson’s city manager.
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