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.
While the Macomb County Circuit Court has delayed the HIV-as-terrorism case against Daniel Allen until next year, lawmakers and advocacy groups are already moving to address the charges.
The House Judiciary Committee likely won’t hear from Attorney General Mike Cox about how he and his office determined where to distribute law suit settlement cash until early next year. Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) says with the budget crisis and other issues pressing on the state, the Judiciary Committee schedule in relation to legislation [...]
HIV activists from the group Michigan Positive Action Coalition have issued a press statement encouraging people with infectious diseases, including H1N1, HIV or the common cold, to call the Macomb County prosecutor and “voluntarily turn themselves in” to be charged with terrorism. In the statement issued by Mark Peterson, a director for the group, activists [...]
An HIV-positive Macomb County man is facing charges created under Michigan’s 2004 terrorism laws for biting another man in a neighborhood scuffle. That, HIV advocates, state lawmakers and legal experts say is “cowardly” and “nonsense” and increases ignorance and stigma surrounding the virus.
LANSING — The Michigan House Judiciary Committee Wednesday voted 9-5 to send legislation to the full House to amend civil rights laws in the state to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
In an interview with Tim Skubick, Michigan Attorney General and GOP candidate for governor Mike Cox responds to allegations that he disrupted the Michigan State Police investigation of an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion, the Detroit Mayoral mansion. A Michigan State Police Detective testified under oath earlier this week that Cox refused to authorize investigators [...]
Saying that the details revealed in an investigation of an Ingham County teacher’s “drunk shaming” are “shocking to everybody,” State Rep. Mark Meadows, a Democrat from East Lansing, says that some sort of action needs to be taken. The Haslett Public Schools “need to do something about this,” Meadows said in lengthy interview Tuesday morning. “This kind of undermines [the school district's] credibility.”
A move by the State House Judiciary Committee to seek approval from the entire Democratic-controlled House to use subpoenas to force Attorney General Mike Cox to testify before the committee remains on the floor of the chamber. “It’s just hanging there,” said Rep. Mark Meadows, the East Lansing Democrat who chairs the committee. “We have [...]
In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday afternoon, Mark Meadows, an East Lansing Democrat, denied he was involved in drafting and pushing legislation which would assess a tax on doctors in order to raise matching funds for federal Medicaid dollars. The legislation squeaked by in the state House on Tuesday night, and was opposed by, among [...]
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, has posted a Facebook status update early Tuesday morning signaling a vote on Michigan’s budget is likely to happen Tuesday. On his Facebook page, Meadows wrote:
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