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.
Immigration advocates and state lawmakers are raising questions about an alleged former terrorist who testified before the House Commerce Committee as well as spoke at a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is asking the Dept. of Homeland Security and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office to investigate reports of a pattern of racial profiling and civil rights abuse by ICE agents in Detroit.
Immigrant rights activists in Detroit say U.S. immigration enforcement officers are following Latino immigrants as they take their kids to school and attend church.
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) — who represents Michigan’s most polluted zip code — and representatives from several state environmental groups gathered near the spirit of Detroit statue last week to protest the construction of 2,000 mile long pipeline that will bring an additional 900,000 barrels a day of Canadian tar sands into the U.S. [...]
With a proposal to replicate a controversial Arizona law targeting immigrants here in Michigan, leaders from business, civil rights groups and law enforcement are speaking out in opposition to the idea.
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, has introduced legislation to give worker’s compensation to undocumented workers in Michigan. “We’re only one of two states in the nation that does not allow workers that are undocumented to compensate when they are injured on the job,” WILX, the NBC affiliate in Lansing, quotes the first term [...]
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a first-term Detroit Democrat, is determined to prevent the Detroit International Bridge Company from taking permanent control over any part of its next door neighbor, city-owned Riverside Park. And while the litigation over the small park in the shadow of the privately-owned Ambassador Bridge is only one of many lawsuits currently [...]
In a flurry of legislative activity late last week the Senate passed a bill with provisions that would ban the Dept. of Environmental Quality from considering whether proposed power plants are necessary and prudent. This measure, if passed through the House might have squashed a February executive order from Gov. Granholm that directed DEQ to [...]
As Michigan’s new legislative session begins, a new bill has been introduced that would regulate Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs), often called “instant refunds” given by tax preparers based upon one’s anticipated tax refund.
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