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.
One year after the worst oil spill in Midwest history took place in Calhoun County, local residents say they’re still experiencing the negative effects on their health while experts say long term risk should be minimal.
About 30 students gathered at the famous rock near Michigan State University’s auditorium Thursday morning. They were there to protest MSU’s TB Simon coal-generated power plant, the largest coal plant on any U.S. campus in the United States. “A lot of people don’t even know MSU is behind in the clean energy game,” says student [...]
Local legal and sexual assault experts are weighing in on all of the publicly available evidence in the alleged sexual assault of a coed by two members of the Michigan State University basketball team, with a majority criticizing the decision not to bring charges or at least investigate the accusations deeper.
There have been several new developments in the story of the alleged sexual assault by two MSU basketball players, which we first reported last Wednesday, that shed more light on the situation and raise many important questions that we are attempting to answer with the help of legal experts. On Friday, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart [...]
Dr. Reza Nassiri, a Michigan State University researcher, tells a story about a car painter from a suburb of Santo Domingo to explain why poor places far away from East Lansing need help in the life-or-death struggle against HIV and AIDS. Nassiri, named director of MSU’s Institute of International Health near the beginning of the year, noticed [...]
EAST LANSING — Facing the continued pressure of dwindling state money and philanthropic donations, Michigan State University has proposed a series of cuts to its budget which will eliminate numerous programs, and scale back others. And that move has some students up in arms.
LANSING — During a meeting Friday morning, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees approved a measure to increase tuition by 5.2 percent this academic year and 4.9 percent the following academic year. Next year’s increase could be reduced by 2 or 3 percent if the university receives federal stimulus money to offset the tuition hikes.
If students from the Michigan State University branch of the ACLU get their way, future students at the land grant university will have the option to room with a person of the opposite gender, The State News reports. Current MSU policy prohibits co-habitation of two people of the opposite sex. That rule, some have argued, [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is planning to host a public forum next week to discuss the how to stem the tide that leads nearly half of the Michigan’s college students to seek professional opportunities outside the state within a year of graduating. Granholm wants to reverse that trend and minimize the effects of Michigan’s brain drain, [...]
EAST LANSING — City police and officers from several local law enforcement agencies broke up a massive crowd in an apartment complex early Tuesday morning hours following Michigan State’s loss to North Carolina in the NCAA men’s basketball championship game in Detroit but fears of a mass riot did not materialize.
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