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.
The Associated Press is reporting that a website featuring the writings of an 89-year-old suspect in Wednesday’s fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is run by a man from West Michigan. The website, www.holywesternempire.org, was taken down on Wednesday. It is registered to Steve Reimink, 45, who lives near Grand [...]
Blogging for Michigan reports on a relatively new white supremacist group operating in Michigan. White Pride Michigan seems to be most active on the west side of the state, particularly the Grand Rapids area. They’ve recently been distributing fliers around the Grand Rapids Community College campus that say:
Leading anti-racist organization says the drug, found on arrestee in Obama plot, is clue
Fund-raising effort by MSU chapter of white nationalist organization might not sit well with service While most Michigan State University students are playing on the beach or working seasonal jobs for the summer, the university’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has been developing new fundraising programs, including the implementation of a PayPal widget [...]
A white supremacist rally in Kalamazoo last summer was organized and attended by a paid FBI informant, Hal Turner, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Thursday.[http://www.splcenter...] Turner’s rally on Aug. 4 drew about 60 white supremacy supporters, sporting swastikas and Confederate flag motifs on their clothing. The rally cost the city of Kalamazoo more than [...]
A rally of white supremacists in Kalamazoo last summer was organized and attended by a paid FBI informant, the Southern Poverty Law Center is reporting. Hal Turner, a New Jersey-based internet radio host and avowed racist who has called for the murder of federal judges, held a rally against what he called black crime in [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT — A protest to pressure the Isabella County prosecutor to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a Central Michigan University student who hung four nooses in a campus classroom featured the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Minister Malik Shabazz. The party has been termed a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty [...]
EAST LANSING — Nick Griffin, the racist and anti-semitic leader of the British National Party will appear at the Michigan State University Vet Med building room E100 on Friday Oct. 26 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. A protest against Griffin will be held Friday from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at the Rock at [...]
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