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.
President George W. Bush may have gotten a pair of shoes thrown at him in Baghdad, but Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero — fresh off a stint as a national media darling pushing for a bailout for the Big Three Automakers — was nearly smote at Monday night’s City Council meeting. Chris Swope, the Lansing City [...]
LANSING — The members of Michigan Pride Inc. are sighing with relief today, after their permit to shoot off fireworks later this month was approved Monday by the Lansing City Council. The group will host the fireworks display on Saturday, June 28, as part of the 20th anniversary lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender statewide pride [...]
4:02 PM EDT — UPDATE in bold below LANSING — Residents and business owners are responding to a series of anti-gay comments spray-painted on buildings in the city’s historic Old Town late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. The area is known for its artist community, trendy lofts and two of the city’s three bars [...]
Concerned about potential safety hazards, Lansing City Council members have asked officials of a high-tech startup company for more information about their plan to manufacture ultra-tiny graphite particles in a working-class neighborhood. On Wednesday, during a meeting of the Council’s Planning and Development Committee, XG Sciences, the sponsor of the project and the Lansing Economic [...]
Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood said today in an interview with the Messenger that XG Sciences has to answer questions about the safety of the firm’s proposed facility for Lansing’s near south side. Wood is chair of the Planning and Development Committee for City Council, which will hold a meeting at noon today at the [...]
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