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.
A group of Royal Oak High School teens will be featured in an MTV program which airs at 1:30 Thursday. The program, called “If You Really Knew Me,” drew together students from various social groups in the school allowing them to interact and discover their commonalities.
Planned Parenthood, MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation are launching a brand new initiative to increase awareness and testing for sexually transmitted infections among Americans 25 years and younger. The new program is designed to connect to tech savvy youth by using the common cyberese of abbreviating longer phrases — like Oh my God to [...]
The MTV Choose or Lose project did a report on the ongoing lawsuits and controversies involving voting rights in Michigan and the report includes an interview with the Messenger’s own Minehaha Forman. The report also includes Chuck D and Professor Griff of rap group Public Enemy. Watch the video below the fold:
Ruthie Alcaide, who was on the 1999 season of MTV’s “The Real World: Hawaii,” will be speaking at Michigan State University’s Anthony Hall, room 1279, from 7-9 p.m. tonight. Alcaide’s appearance at MSU is part of the Alliance of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender Students Pride Week celebration. The native Hawaiian is best remembered as a [...]
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