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 National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) announced Tuesday that its member organizations had tracked a 13 percent increase in violent anti-gay crimes nationwide in 2010, but the numbers in the state of Michigan appear to be mixed.
The Michigan House Committee on Education Wednesday morning took testimony on proposed anti-bullying legislation but declined to take action on the legislation or on a substitute bill, pushing potential action back until the fall sessions.
Less than 24 hours after a civil rights organization called for state and federal civil rights investigations into the use of controversial “Client Acknowledgment Forms” by local health departments in the state, at least one state agency is taking notice.
An organization that lobbies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights issues in Lansing has called for an investigation by civil rights authorities into the legality of controversial client acknowledgment forms being presented to HIV positive people in the state.
A policy which prevents registered medical marijuana patients from using or possessing their medicine while at Michigan State University is coming under fire.
The Michigan Farm Bureau announced yesterday that it supports maintaining adequate funding and staffing for the Dept. of Agriculture program that conducts inspections of housing provided to migrant and seasonal farm workers. The group warned that just four staff members are now responsible for inspecting housing units used by 22,000 workers. The announcement came in [...]
A new study by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights finds that the more than 90,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers who come to Michigan every year, particularly at harvest time, often live in substandard housing, toil under terrible working conditions and face discrimination. The Muskegon Chronicle reports:
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — An incident of “drunk shaming” and drug use among teachers from the Haslett Public Schools has drawn the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, a spokesman says. “We were already involved and watching.”
LANSING — A policy that bars HIV-positive inmates in Michigan prisons from working in food service jobs does not violate state law, according to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. But though the policy may be legal, one leader in the Michigan Department of Corrections says he wants to change the policy.
A Department of Corrections spokesman says a policy barring HIV-positive prisoners from working in food service is in place to prevent transmission through food. But experts say there is no scientific basis for those fears and the Department of Civil Rights is launching a formal investigation into the state policy.
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