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.
UPDATE — 4:00 PM EDT –
The petition drive has now been launched at FireDogLake; click here to read the post.
CLICK HERE for the petition itself.
11:51 AM EDT – Michigan Messenger has learned that a petition drive based on a grassroots proposal outlining distribution of delegates between Democratic candidates will be launched this afternoon at progressive blogsite FireDogLake.
Marcy Wheeler, a grassroots Democratic Party activist from Washetenaw County, Michigan, laid out the proposed distribution at her blog Emptywheel and at MichiganLiberal.com. The response from the Democratic grassroots and blogger community has been characterized as strong, encouraging Ms. Wheeler to set up a petition drive supporting the proposal.
Under Ms. Wheeler’s proposal, delegates selected during last Saturday’s congressional district convention by members of the Michigan Democratic Party would be seated at the Democratic National Committee’s Convention this summer; Michigan’s superdelegates would not be seated.
The petition drive comes at a time when known Clinton supporters like Michigan’s Governor Jennifer Granholm continue to call for seating of Michigan’s delegates according to the outcome of January’s early primary.
Watch Michigan Messenger for more details as the petition drive is launched.
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