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.
Mary Hanna, operations manager of the Michigan Peace Team, a Lansing-based group which does peace work in Palestine, is worried about Palestinian journalist Sameh Habeeb. On Tuesday afternoon about 2:45 p.m. she was talking with Habeeb through an instant messaging client. She asked him if he was safe, to which he replied:
NO WE ARE NOT SAFE. ROCKET IS GOING OVER MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW
At that point, Hanna reports, the connection went dead. Habeeb has not been heard from since. He has been updating his Facebook page and sending daily war updates from inside Gaza, and neither has been updated yet today.
Michigan Messenger interviewed Habeeb early on in the new war.
Hanna does report that a missing translator the group had expressed fear about still has not checked in, but through the grapevine they have heard the translator is alive and safe.
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