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 GOP icon Samuel Wurzelbacher, more popularly known as Joe the Plumber, has told Time magazine he is quitting the Republican Party, a party that incidentally catapulted his image to the forefront of the national conscience during the 2008 presidential race when Republican John McCain of Arizona made mention of Joe the Plumber during a debate with Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois.
“Joe” went on to fame because of his iconic elevation by the Republican Party — the common fellow whose dreams and livelihood were being ruined by the U.S. government. He wanted to buy the plumbing company he worked for. It turned out he had a tax lien on his home and he was not even a licensed plumber in Ohio. But his everyman status stuck with him, even as McCain fell in the national election.
From Time:
Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldn’t support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid — which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits.
“Joe” is no stranger to odd proclamations.
In April, he told a Lansing tea party protest crowd that saying “In God We Trust” could “get you shot” in some parts of the country. And just this week, he told Christianity Today he would not let gay people “anywhere near” his children.
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