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.
DETROIT — The murder of a transgender woman discovered this week has been mishandled by the Detroit Police Department, says Mara Keisling,executive director of the National Center for Trangender Equality. “Understand that this kind of crime, besides being a tragedy for the victim and her loved ones, makes a lot of people nervous,” Keisling said. [...]
DETROIT — The Detroit Police Department has identified a murdered man found in women’s clothing in an empty lot. However, they are refusing to release the name to the public. “We have identified the victim, but we are not releasing the name,” Detroit Police Officer Leon Rahmaan said. “We are not releasing the name at [...]
Michigan’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender (LGBT) community and its supporters are looking back at 2007 as a year full of news — both good and bad. Topping the year in terms of impact on the LGBT community was a ruling in February by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The ruling overturned an Ingham County [...]
When Julie Nemecek first told the president of Spring Arbor University that she was transgender and would be assuming her female persona, the president, Nemecek said, was supportive. But in the weeks that followed she was subjected to a series of ever more restrictive rules. Nemecek, an ordained Baptist minister who changed her name from [...]
LANSING — As many Michigan citizens prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave transgender employees a holiday gift. She signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. The five-page order, signed Nov. 21, states, “To build a more inclusive Michigan our state government must be [...]
[COMMENTARY] First featured as an op-ed at Between The Lines and Pride Source in response to a Nov. 7
The October 29 suicide of 16-year-old transgender student Ian Benson has the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community grappling with difficult issues. “As parents, this is one of our worst fears,” said Colette Beighley, Triangle Foundation’s West Michigan field organizer. Triangle Foundation is a statewide gay-rights organization, which focuses on monitoring, reporting on and assisting [...]
After years of stalling, the University of Michigan is poised to adopt a policy protecting its students, faculty and staff from discrimination based on gender identity and expression. Continued -
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