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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Appeals court blasts administration on Gitmo detainee

By Ed Brayton | 07.01.08 | 3:08 pm

In the first case where a civilian court has heard an appeal of the detention of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the government to release, transfer or order a new military trial for Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim captured in Afghanistan. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel that included Judge Thomas Griffith, appointed by President Bush in 2005, and Chief Judge David Sentelle, considered one of the most conservative judges on the federal bench, concluded that the government had scant evidence to justify Parhat

Comments

  • Tony Collings

    Alice in Wonderland If our courts are now quoting Lewis Carroll, that proves that Gitmo is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. As the Queen says in that book, “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.”

  • Tony Collings

    Alice in Wonderland If our courts are now quoting Lewis Carroll, that proves that Gitmo is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. As the Queen says in that book, “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.”