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.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be stumping in Macomb and Kent counties Wednesday, angling hard to set himself up for the general election in the state come November.
Obama will hold an invitation-only town hall meeting with workers at Macomb Community College in the morning, before driving to an open rally in Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena. Doors for the Grand Rapids event open at 5 p.m. and Obama is expected to speak at 7 p.m. Tickets are not necessary for the event but the campaign strongly suggests people reserve seats on the candidate Web site, BarackObama.com. For security reasons, no signs or bags will be allowed into the event.
Obama chose to make his first campaign stops in Michigan in two very different counties. Kent County is considered a Republican stronghold, while Macomb is considered the home of the Reagan Democrats. Statistics show both counties voted for George W. Bush in 2004, with Kent county voting 171,201 for Bush and 116,909 for Senator John Kerry. In Macomb County, Bush tallied 202,166 votes to Kerry’s 196,160.
Other recent election stats show that in the 2006 governor’s race, Kent County went to Republican candidate Dick DeVos — 128,471 votes to Governor Jennifer Granholm’s 109,940 — but in Macomb County, Granholm won 165,515 to DeVos’ 145,968. In the U.S. Senate race in 2006, incumbent Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow won Macomb county, but Republican challenger Mike Bouchard won Kent county.
Watch Michigan Messenger for further coverage of Obama’s visits in Michigan.
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