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.
A new report from the Michigan Bar Association says Michigan should establish statewide standards for the delivery of legal representation for the poor and shift the funding responsibility from the counties to the state.
The Benton Harbor/Twin Cities Chapter of the NAACP is worried that the state’s financial takeover of the city will result in the disenfranchisement of voters and a sell-off of city assets, the Herald-Palladium reports. On Tuesday members of the group picketed outside an invitation-only meeting between emergency manager Joseph Harris and community representatives.
The former supervisor of the Benton Harbor Police Narcotics Unit has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges.
Recently cleared of a 3-10 year prison sentence imposed for criticizing a Berrien County judge, Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor is organizing a boycott and picket of Harbor Shores, the controversial private golf course under construction on the city’s public parkland along Lake Michigan. In an interview on Monday, Pinkney said that the Black [...]
A politically active Baptist preacher from Benton Harbor, Rev. Edward Pinkney, remained under near constant house arrest on Tuesday as a crowd gathered at the Michigan Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids for oral arguments in appeals of his politically charged conviction on election fraud charges for which he was given probation and the 3-to-10-year prison sentence he received when a judge said he violated probation by writing an article for a Chicago newspaper.
Nation of Islam leader and part time Michigan resident Louis Farrakhan rallied support for jailed Benton Harbor preacher Edward Pinkney at an event there on Friday, telling a crowd of 400 that Pinkney was trying to be “a tool in the tool chest of God,” the Herald Palladium reports.
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has issued its 2009 list of winners of its Jefferson Muzzles, an ignominious award designed to “call[] attention to those who in the past year forgot or disregarded Mr. Jefferson’s admonition that freedom of speech ‘cannot be limited without being lost.’” Number three on the [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ordered that bail be granted for Benton Harbor preacher Rev. Edward Pinkney pending his appeal of a sentence handed down in response to a newspaper article he published last year.
A lawyer for an imprisoned Benton Harbor community activist, the Rev. Edward Pinkney, claims the Berrien County sheriff authorized a raid of Pinkney’s jail cell last month, confiscated his legal notes and sent copies of them to the judge scheduled to hear his probation violation case. Pinkney, an associate pastor at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church [...]
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