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.
Two Michigan state Senators have proposed legislation which would allow counseling students to decline to counsel some clients because doing so would violate their “sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.”
The city of Holland, Michigan is currently considering whether to pass an amendment to the town’s anti-discrimination ordinance to forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, and now is also debating whether to add an exemption for religious organizations if they do so. The Grand Rapids Press reports:
A group of messianic Jews commonly called Jews for Jesus has filed a lawsuit against the city of Pontiac alleging that the city police department violated their right to free speech and freedom of religion by preventing them from handing out literature during an annual music festival. The Oakland Press reports:
A magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is recommending that an inmate at Ryan Correctional Facility in Detroit have his motion for summary judgment granted in a lawsuit he filed against the Michigan Department of Corrections for declaring his religion to be a gang and outlawing his practice [...]
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling upholding the editorial practices of Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) in a directory they publish listing companies and individuals who can help applicants for unemployment benefits.
One of our sister sites, the Minnesota Independent, has an interesting article about Jim Ramstad, the Minnesota Republican who is being considered for two positions in the Obama administration, either head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) or head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Looks like Ramstad [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal in a case the Messenger reported on earlier this year.
The Michigan Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court order that upheld the state’s requirement that residents provide their Social Security number (SSN) when applying for a state driver’s license.
A federal judge, citing an unwillingness to create friction between state and federal courts, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman from Michigan over a small claims court judge’s insistence that she remove her hijab before testifying. Ginnah Muhammad is an African-American Muslim woman whose religion requires her to wear a hijab — [...]
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