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.
Advocates for second parent adoption want to pass legislation legalizing that practice in Michigan, but face likely opposition not only from the religious right but from the new head of the agency that oversees adoptions in the state.
The arrest of Adrian Hill, a man who had evaded authorities for the last three years and was one of the Lansing Police Department’s most wanted fugitives, has shed new light on what policy makers and law enforcement say are significant problems with the state’s sex offender registry.
A coalition of Grand Rapids homeless shelters and homeless people who have been convicted of sexual offenses has filed a lawsuit against the state of Michigan. The reason? The state’s sex offender registry prohibits sex offenders from staying within a certain distance of a school. In Grand Rapids, all the area homeless shelters are located [...]
LANSING — Concerned with the party’s electoral fortunes in 2010, many Michigan Democrats were caught off guard on Friday when State Rep. Pam Byrnes announced she would introduce legislation aimed at reversing the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage OK’d by voters in 2004.
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