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.
While Kalamazoo’s proposed Ordinance 1856 would bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, it’s the second category that has generated the most controversy.
LANSING — In a move to circumvent the Michigan Senate’s Committee on Education, Sen. Glenn Anderson on Wednesday forced a vote on his version of a controversial bill that would “compel” local school districts to develop plans to address and prevent bullying situations.
LANSING — A letter from the head of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s criminal division exonerating Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith of any criminal wrongdoing in the public release of an arrested man’s HIV-positive status has activists and political leaders up in arms.
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health is calling on city officials to request an investigation by the Michigan attorney general’s office into the release of a man’s HIV status related to arrests made during a controversial sex sting in May.
After a significant increase in reported bias crimes and related incidents in 2007, Michigan has reported a decrease in reported incidents for 2008. In 2007, the Detroit-based Triangle Foundation, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization which tracks hate-motivated crimes targeting the LGBT community, reported a 133-percent increase in such incidents. Last year, the [...]
LANSING — In a tense two-hour meeting earlier on Wednesday, members of the Lansing City Council’s Public Safety Committee grilled Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley and Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith about a host of issues raised by a controversial May 22 sex-sting operation. Grumbling over the matter has grown in volume since Tuesday when [...]
LANSING — A variety of city officials, from council members to the mayor’s office to the city attorney, are trying to figure out what to do about the case of Jan Kolp, a Board of Police Commissioners member who said on Friday that she placed a call to the police’s special operations unit which triggered a controversial May sex-sting operation in a city nature center. But some are saying that it may be inappropriate for board officials to make such call, which could be leaning in the direction of special treatment.
LANSING — A May 22 sex-sting operation in the city’s Fenner Nature Center has raised questions about command and control of police operations, especially after police officials have given conflicting information about the operation in recent weeks. A fight over a Freedom of Information Act request is headed to the city council on Monday.
LANSING — As Michigan’s leading gay rights organizations split over anti-bullying legislation, debate persists over whether the differences are hurting the political effectiveness of the gay rights movement within Democratic Party circles in the state.
LANSING — A crowd of nearly 100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their supporters protested on the steps of the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday night in opposition to a California Supreme Court ruling which upheld a ban on same-sex marriage approved by Golden State voters last November.
Organizers said the event was “to call for absolute equality” in the state of Michigan for LGBT persons, with some advocates calling for an effort to put a new marriage equality amendment on the 2012 ballot.
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