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.
This evening on WPRR-1680 AM radio’s Declaring Independence, Ed Brayton will be interviewing two interesting guests. The first is Lindsay Beyerstein, who blogs at Majikthise and writes for The Washington Independent. They will discuss the influence of lobbyists in Washington and the incestuous relationship between money and politics in this country.
Ed’s second guest is Joann Bell, whose story is a remarkable one. She filed a lawsuit to get rid of school-sanctioned prayer at her childrens’ school and had her house burned down. She is now the director of the very group that represented her in that case, the ACLU of Oklahoma.
You can listen from 6:00 -7:00 p.m. EST by clicking here. If you missed last week’s program, you can find it at the Declaring Independence Radio website.
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