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.
Those are two issues we’ve written about a great deal over the last few months and they could hardly seem to be more different. But there’s a connection between them, believe it or not. The House bill to restore and extend federal unemployment benefits to working Americans — HR 5618 — contains a provision that [...]
WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit recently did a story about the son of Francie Baldino, who is one of many young people in Michigan to have been caught in “Romeo and Juliet” relationships and then forced to be on the sex offender registry for the next 25 years. You can see the video of that [...]
As Francie Baldino’s son serves out the remaining months of his underage sex conviction at the state’s Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility — and braces for life on the state’s online sex offender registry for 25 years — Baldino is channeling emotion into activism.
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