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.
After a floor fight Saturday afternoon, delegates at the Michigan Democratic Party convention in Lansing chose their candidate for the state supreme court race. Chief justice Cliff Taylor, a Republican, is up for reelection and will now face Diane Marie Hathaway.
[COMMENTARY] It was with great disappointment that many of us heard the news late last week that the Michigan Supreme Court had ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage passed by state voters in 2004 also prohibited public employers from offering health and other benefits to the partners of gay employees. With the passage of [...]
The Attorney General’s office has sought leave to appeal Friday’s Appeals Courts decision in the court case that has the January 15 Presidential primary up in the air. The leave merely allows the state to ask permission of the court to hear the case. The Court can decline, leaving in place the Appeals Court decision, [...]
LANSING — The Michigan Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in a domestic-partners health benefits case that experts say has national implications. The case, Pride at Work v. Granholm, challenges whether an amendment voters added to the state Constitution in 2004 prevents public employers from offering the benefits to same-sex couples. The amendment defines marriage [...]
After Proposal 2 passed in November 2004, there was a great deal of confusion among voters about what exactly they had voted for. They had been repeatedly told by those who advocated the measure that it would only prohibit gay marriage and would not have any effect on domestic partnership benefits offered by public employers, [...]
The Michigan Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments in November on whether Proposal 2, passed in 2004, prohibits government institutions, including cities and universities, from offering benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. And both sides are returning to the debate that lead up to its passage. In July 2004, there was no [...]
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