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.
Add Iowa’s Democratic Gov. Chet Culver to the growing (and bipartisan) list of governors who have received letters containing a mysterious powder this week, according to our sister site, The Iowa Independent.
On Monday, the governors of Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island received these letters. All laboratory tests of the powder, which some feared would be anthrax or another biological or chemical agent, came back negative.
Over the course of the week, more states reported similar letters. Yesterday, another Michigan Messenger affiliate, The New Mexico Independent reported that more than a dozen people who were exposed to the powder at Gov. Bill Richardson’s office were rushed to the hospital and quarantined until scientists determined today that the substance was harmless.
The report from Iowa brings the total number of states receiving these letters to 32.
(Aaron Wiener writes for Michigan Messenger’s sister site, The Washington Independent.)
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