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 Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual listing of hate groups on Tuesday and the list shows a significant increase in the number of groups so identified, including in Michigan.
In an exclusive interview with Michigan Messenger, Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the civil rights group is likely to list Battalion 14 Michigan Division on its 2010 list of active hate groups. “I have very little doubt we will list them as a hate group,” Potok said. He [...]
Leading anti-racist organization says the drug, found on arrestee in Obama plot, is clue
The number of organizations characterized as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has increased nearly 50 percent since 2000, an increase it attributes partly to the debate over immigration. That’s one of the latest findings by the Birmingham, Ala.-based SPLC, an international nonprofit legal organization devoted to civil rights. Its annual Hatewatch [...]
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