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 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.
A rare post lame duck session of the state legislature has prompted Kevin Epling, co-director of Bully Police USA and a leading advocate for anti-bullying legislation in the state, to call on the state Senate to use the opportunity to pass the law.
A spokesperson for Gov. Jennifer Granholm Tuesday said Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) was “wrong” when he characterized the freeze on the state’s anti-bullying legislation. In an interview with Michigan Messenger, Kuipers, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, said the legislation was stalled because lawmakers were having trouble defining bullying.
LANSING — The chair of the Senate Education Committee says efforts to pass anti-bullying legislation in the state are stalled because lawmakers can’t define what bullying is — yet he expects local school districts to do a better job than state legislators can.
The arrest of Adrian Hill, a man who had evaded authorities for the last three years and was one of the Lansing Police Department’s most wanted fugitives, has shed new light on what policy makers and law enforcement say are significant problems with the state’s sex offender registry.
News last week of the suicide of a 12-year-old middle school student in Michigan’s upper peninsula has activists and lawmakers renewing their calls for swift action on stalled legislation that supporters say would help prevent bullying.
The department in charge of administering the state’s medical marijuana program has come out in opposition to a package of bills that would change the program adopted via ballot measure in 2008. Under the current program, people with qualifying medical conditions can register with the state and receive authorization to possess and grow a limited [...]
In a move that critics say is an attempt to further his congressional campaign, Republican State Sen. Wayne Kuipers of Holland, has scheduled a hearing on a package of bills that would change the public health code to reclassify medical marijuana as a schedule 2 controlled substance and require that it be dispensed exclusively by [...]
The race to replace Congressman Pete Hoekstra of Holland in the U.S. Congress is in full gear. Hoekstra is not seeking re-election this year, and is instead running for governor. Vying to replace him, according MLive.com, are four Republicans and a Democrat.
Kevin Epling, co-director of BullyPolice U.S.A. and a staunch advocate in Michigan’s drive to pass anti-bullying legislation, says he is disappointed that in the race to pass reforms to qualify for millions in federal education cash, the state ignored passing comprehensive anti-bullying legislation. In an e-mail to Facebook supporters, Epling wrote:
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