Long Beach hosts Trans Day of Remembrance ceremony
Trans Day of Remembrance is observed every year on Nov. 20 to memorialize folks lost to anti-LGBTQ violence.
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Trans Day of Remembrance is observed every year on Nov. 20 to memorialize folks lost to anti-LGBTQ violence.
Macomb County restaurants file lawsuit against Whitmer, other officials over closures Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press © Volodymyr Rozumii, Getty Images/iStockphoto Michigan restaurants have been closed to indoor dining since a state health department order went into effect on Nov. 18. A newly formed Macomb County restaurant group has sued Michigan officials over state shutdown orders during the past year amid the coronavirus pandemic. "They're killing us," Sam Backos, owner of Ernie's in Clinton Township told the Free Press Monday evening. Backos is among the restaurants...
Albert Addis is the Macomb County attorney representing the recently formed Macomb County Restaurant, Bar and Banquet Association. Addis alleges that under the state’s constitution the restaurant business has been taken away without "just compensation." “We filed this lawsuit on a simple legal premise that we think is strong, and one that has not been decided by any court yet,” Addis told the Macomb Daily. “That premise is the Michigan constitution does not allow the government by fiat to take away people’s property and businesses without just compensation." The association is aski...
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 6:06 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Vermont state officials are vowing to make conditions safe for women serving prison time and for those who work in correctional facilities. The push follows the release of an independent review Wednesday that found a troubling number of sexual misconduct claims associated with the state's female prison. "One incident is too many," said Tris Coffin, an attorney with the firm Downs Rachlin Martin, which was hired by the Vermont Agency of Human Serves to review Vermont's only women's prison. Coffin said the Chittenden Regional Correctio...