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.
A leading legal scholar says controversial anti-bullying legislation passed last week in the Michigan Senate is vague, confusing and will do little to address the problem of bullying.
A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing).
The Michigan House Committee on Education Wednesday morning took testimony on proposed anti-bullying legislation but declined to take action on the legislation or on a substitute bill, pushing potential action back until the fall sessions.
Anti-bullying activists say the details of a federal settlement in a bullying case at Ogemaw High School renews the urgency for the state to pass comprehensive legislation addressing bullying
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday urged the state legislature to pass anti-bullying legislation, but his office declined to disclose which pieces of legislation currently pending before the legislature he supported.
Michigan advocates are continuing their drive to get the state legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, even as Arkansas has gone back and reworked its law.
The White House has announced that President Barack Obama and representatives from the departments of Health and Human Services and Education will participate in a conference to address bullying in the U.S.
The Gold Dance School from Brockton, MA will premiere a new dance about an East Lansing teen’s bullying and death on April 1 and 2 this year.
Former State Sen. Alan Cropsey has a new job, and it is worrying some activists in the state. Cropsey was formally appointed as the legislative liaison for Attorney General Bill Schuette.
When asked by reporters about legislation mandating school districts create policies to deal with bullying, Lt. Col. Kriste Etue said she would be “a strong supporter of addressing bullying in the state.”
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