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 Ferndale Police Department is investigating an incident in which a gay couple’s vehicle were scrawled with anti-gay epithets, and a home splattered with paint.
Four Michigan residents have appealed a September decision by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington in a suit challenging the constitutionality of the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
After Ingham County prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III concluded that no state laws were violated by the unidentified person who burned a Quran and left it near an Islamic center in East Lansing, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding a federal investigation and federal hate crime charges in the case. The Detroit News reports:
Earlier this year a group of plaintiffs from Michigan, represented by the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, passed in 2009, violated their religious freedom and freedom of speech rights. The judge dismissed the case this week.
The case of four Michigan conservative activists challenging the federal hate crimes act has gotten the support of a U.S. Congressman. U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan; as well as his co-plaintiffs in the federal case pastors Levon Yuille, Rene Ouellette [...]
The Thomas More Law Center, founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza fame, has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several Michigan religious leaders against the federal government over the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was passed into law last year. The plaintiffs include Gary Glenn, president of [...]
LANSING — State Sen. Hansen Clarke says the passage of a federal hate crimes law should spur the state Senate to pass Michigan’s anti-bias crime legislation. “People are still being discriminated against based on the sexual orientation and HIV status, and they need that protection,” the Detroit Democrat said.
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