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.
Grand Valley State University has become the third state university to provide gender neutral housing for students.
The Michigan Employment Relations Commission ruled this week that graduate researchers at the University of Michigan are not allowed under state law to unionize because they are not public employees.
More than 100 graduates of the University of Michigan Law School walked out of their own Senior Day celebration to protest the choice of Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a man with a long track record of anti-gay politics, as the speaker for the event.
When the Mackinac Center’s requested emails from the labor programs at Wayne State and the University of Michigan, John Beck, Associate Professor and Director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, says his phone started ringing off the hook.
Nearly 100 University of Michigan students rallied yesterday to protest plans to have Gov. Rick Snyder deliver the school’s commencement address next month.
As the crisis in Egypt continues into its seventh day, Michigan’s universities are recalling students placed in the country for study abroad programs.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
After a meeting with Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell and his attorney, the University of Michigan’s Department of Public Safety made some modifications to their trespass order prohibiting Shirvell from stepping foot on the U of M campus. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Washtenaw County prosecutor has rejected a request from the University of Michigan Department of Public Safety for stalking charges to be filed against Assistant Michigan Attorney General Andrew Shirvell for his persistent harassment of U of M student leader Chris Armstrong. AnnArbor.com reports:
Researchers at the University of Michigan have made a major breakthrough that could help other researchers around the world improve their protocols and prevent contamination as the grow new stem cell lines in the laboratory. AnnArbor.com reports on the details:
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