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.
The Holland City Council has rejected legislation which would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
The ACLU sent letters to public schools around the country, including Rochester High School in Michigan, demanding that they change the filters on their computers to stop preventing students from accessing LGBT websites.
The Bay City Times is reporting that 17-year-old Cassandra Morris has dropped out of Ogemaw Heights schools because of bullying based on her sexual orientation. Morris came out to her friends and family last year, which resulted in a series of escalating bullying incidents, including a July incident in which her tires were slashed, sausage [...]
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will host the annual Michigan Pride celebration this weekend in Lansing. The event will feature a march, a rally and a festival. The grand marshal of the march will be county superstar Chely Wright, who came out of the closet recently as a lesbian.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Michigan Republican primary for governor. The announcement was made on Cox’s gubernatorial campaign website. From the release:
Daniel Allen, the 44-year-old Clinton Township man charged with bio-terrorism stemming from an Oct. 18 fight with a neighbor, has asked the FBI to investigate the fight as a hate crime, says Allen’s attorney James Galen, Jr. “My client and I went to the Clinton Township FBI Field Office for two hours yesterday,” Galen said [...]
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.
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 [...]
LANSING — State Rep. Pam Byrnes, a Democrat from Washtenaw County’s Lyndon Township, is planning to introduce legislation that would repeal Michigan’s 2004 ban on same-sex marriages. “The time has come,” the speaker pro-tem said in an interview with Michigan Messenger on Friday afternoon. “I think attitudes are changing. We are seeing other states flip [...]
LANSING — As Michigan’s leading gay rights organizations split over anti-bullying legislation, debate persists over whether the differences are hurting the political effectiveness of the gay rights movement within Democratic Party circles in the state.
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