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.
The still-unsettled Senate race in Minnesota between incumbent Norm Coleman and opponent Al Franken continues today. In a hearing before a three-judge panel, the matter of foreclosed voters was discussed.
You may recall that Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Jane Melzer reported last September on the possibility that lists of foreclosed voters could have been used to challenge voters at the polls. Minnesota’s Ramsey County set up a website to help voters pre-election to explain to local voters that they could vote even if they were in foreclosure because they “had so many questions come up about that in October”; their voter education processes were just reviewed in front of the panel.
The UpTake.org has an archive of videos from the Franken-Coleman panel, including today’s hearing in Minnesota.
One might wonder how the eventual outcome of this race might have been affected if questions about foreclosed voters’ rights had not been asked before election day.
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