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 federal court in Detroit has granted a preliminary injunction against the SMART bus system, ordering them to allow an anti-Muslim advertisement to be placed on buses pending the outcome of a full trial on the issue.
The Thomas More Law Center, representing the plaintiffs in a case against the SMART bus system in the Metro Detroit area for refusing to air an anti-Islam advertisement on the side of their buses, has asked a federal district court for a preliminary injunction in the case pending trial. The ad in question, sponsored by [...]
The Thomas More Law Center has filed suit on behalf of clients against the SMART bus system in Southeast Michigan for refusing to run ads on the sides of their buses that encourage people to leave Islam. The ad, sponsored by the conservative group Freedom Defense Initiative, says: “Fatwa on your head? Is your family [...]
It didn’t take long for the ads taken out on the side of SMART buses in the Metro Detroit area by a coalition of atheist, skeptic and freethought groups to be vandalized. At least three of the ads, which say “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone,” had the upper left hand corners ripped [...]
An atheist organization has arranged to take out ads on buses in the metro Detroit area that have proved controversial in other areas of the country. The ads say simply: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.”
In a time when we have machinery rolling over the surface of Mars, you’d think we would be fully utilizing the science that keeps the wheels on public buses going round and round. But many cities in Michigan seem to be falling behind in perfecting public transport. For example, the city of Warren, the third-largest [...]
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