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.
[COMMENTARY] There’s a thing in architecture called perspective. Look at a five-story building by itself, without comparison to other structures, and it looks big. Stand beside it, and it seems gigantic. Build a 60-story tower next to it, and look again. It seems tiny. Continued -
Grand Rapids Police spokesman Ralph Mason told Michigan Messenger that his department is ready to handle the estimated crowds of over 12,000 people expected to flood downtown Grand Rapids this afternoon for the appearance of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. “There is going to be some congestion,” Mason said. “We have extra officers on to [...]
Dr. Ken Edelin nearly went to jail for performing a legal abortion. In October 1973, just months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, Edelin performed an abortion on a 17-year-old girl who had come with her mother to request the procedure at the Boston hospital where Edelin worked as an obstetrician/gynecologist. Both [...]
Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger is back in the courtroom and in the limelight — though this time as the defendant in a criminal federal prosecution. Since his trial for alleged illegal campaign contributions kicked off, the wily former candidate for governor and his star attorney, Gerry Spence, have managed to turn more than one prosecution [...]
LANSING, MI — Over a thousand young people came to the Capitol in Lansing this morning to join parents, teachers and lawmakers for a giant exercise party. For the fifth year in a row, House Speaker Pro Tempore Michael G. Sak, D-Grand Rapids, invited children from nine Lansing area schools to take part in “All [...]
The whole thing began in November 2006 at a speech by former Reagan and Bush security adviser Ray Tanter at the University of Michigan. Dr. Catherine Wilkerson was there as part of a group protesting Tanter’s speech, but when police arrested another protester, Blaine Coleman, in a manner that put his life in danger, she [...]
Mildred Loving, one-half of the married couple whose legal challenge overturned laws against interracial marriage nationwide, has died at 68. The Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia was a watershed victory for freedom and equality, but Mildred liked to say that she was just fighting for her love of her husband, Richard. The two [...]
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must go, according to a report by Bill Goodman, the independent attorney hired by the Detroit City Council to help with its investigation into the mayor’s conduct in the wake of a police whistle-blower trial last summer. Goodman delivered the 35-page report Monday morning to council offices, according to the Detroit [...]
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could face more embarrassing revelations today, as a Wayne County judge rules on whether to release the document that prompted the mayor’s $8.4 million settlement last year in a police whistle-blower lawsuit. The 18-page document, recovered from a lawyer’s computer, sparked the deal to hide text messages that revealed an affair [...]
The Dalai Lama taught about wisdom, compassion, and the nature of the self, but not politics in two, two-hour Dharma talks Saturday at the University of Michigan. Speaking to a reverent crowd of thousands, he urged people to adhere to their own traditions, saying that a multiplicity of traditions and religions serves the diversity of [...]
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