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 protest and arrest of a group of three undocumented youth and one permanent citizen at the offices of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has garnered local and national attention.
One Michigan has announced that it will host vigils in Detroit and Lansing Tuesday to continue calls for the passage of the DREAM Act and to support three undocumented youth and a supporter arrested Monday during a sit-in protest at Sen. John McCain’s Tucson, AZ office. The DREAM Act, supporters say, would create a path [...]
Priscila Martinez, campaign manager for One Michigan, has confirmed that the undocumented youth protesting at Arizona Sen. John McCain’s Tuscon office have been arrested. Flavia De La Fuente, national spokesperson for the students tells Michigan Messenger the protesters were arrested by Tuscon Police.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm steps to the microphone of the House of Representatives Wednesday, she will likely be speaking above the din of protesters filling the lawn of the capitol. At least two groups are planning protests: groups worried about potential tax increases and students connected with NoBrokenPromise.com have both announced protests.
Prisoners in the Upper Peninsula’s Chippewa Correctional Facility are not happy with state budget cuts. And to make their displeasure known to the state, about 100 prisoners staged a protest Saturday night. The prisoners remained in the outside yard for about 30 minutes longer than they were supposed to, reports Lansing’s WLNS. The prisoners were [...]
In a city were an estimated 33 percent of the population doesn’t own a car, a proposal to cut bus services which are the city’s only method of public transit isn’t going to be taken well. So it should come as no surprise that the first public hearing on a proposal that would eliminate Saturday [...]
DETROIT — Among the hundreds of unionized city workers gathered in front of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center earlier this week to protest pay cuts proposed by Mayor Dave Bing were candidates hoping to unseat the new mayor and secure other elected offices in the Nov. 3 election. The Wednesday protest was called one of the largest in recent memory.
LANSING — A crowd of nearly 100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their supporters protested on the steps of the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday night in opposition to a California Supreme Court ruling which upheld a ban on same-sex marriage approved by Golden State voters last November.
Organizers said the event was “to call for absolute equality” in the state of Michigan for LGBT persons, with some advocates calling for an effort to put a new marriage equality amendment on the 2012 ballot.
LANSING — The Michigan State Capitol is pretty used to various rallies and protests. From the tea party protests a few weeks ago, to gay pride rallies, to gathers of organized labor, anti-war activists and white nationalists. But staffers at the Capitol on Wednesday morning were greeted by not only a protest by Sri Lankan [...]
Jim Edmondson, the campaign manager for Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s mayoral campaign in Detroit, said that to his knowledge, all the protesters who showed up to protest the campaign headquarters of businessman Dave Bing on Sunday afternoon were volunteers and were not paid. On Sunday, a Cockrel campaign volunteer, who asked not to be named, told [...]
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