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.
If students from the Michigan State University branch of the ACLU get their way, future students at the land grant university will have the option to room with a person of the opposite gender, The State News reports.
Current MSU policy prohibits co-habitation of two people of the opposite sex. That rule, some have argued, makes the transition process for transgender students more difficult and cumbersome. Before a transgender person can complete a gender reassignment surgery, they must live as their identified gender for two years.
The policy has been submitted to the University’s governing process, and could take months or years to wend its way through the Byzantine labyrinth of the university. It would have to be approved by President Lou Anna K. Simon and the MSU Board of Trustees.
Policy author Michael Rivard told the State News concerns about men and women living together are minimal.
“Students coming here to MSU are responsible adults, and in my opinion, responsible adults can make responsible decisions.”
Rivard told the State News he hopes to see the policy in effect by 2011.
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