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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Posts Tagged White Supremacy

Kyle Bristow to seek post as Youth Chair of MI-GOP

By Todd A. Heywood | 11.17.08 | 8:36 am

Last week, former chair and current communications director of Young Americans for Freedom Michigan State University, Kyle Bristow, announced he is seeking to become the Michigan Republican Party’s Youth Chair.

Midland GOP precinct delegate dresses in his KKK robes the day after the election

By Todd A. Heywood | 11.10.08 | 11:54 am

Protests Obama’s win in busy intersection, in broad daylight in full Klan regalia

MSU hate group brings in speakers with ties to white supremacy

By Todd A. Heywood | 10.03.07 | 1:12 pm

EAST LANSING — The Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom has a lineup of speakers for this school year that includes three people with ties to white supremacy groups. YAF will host Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which publicly opposes immigration, on Oct. 4; Chris Simcox of [...]

MSU hate group has ties to white supremacy movement

By Todd A. Heywood | 09.14.07 | 12:27 am

EAST LANSING — Kyle Bristow, the chair of Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan State University, has ties to the white supremacy movement — something Bristow flatly denied in this past spring. In a Michigan State News interview on March 15, Bristow denied the student group was anything like Nazis or the KKK. “They don’t [...]