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.
Former Vermont Gov. and Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean told a crowd at a Kalamazoo Valley Community College foundation fundraiser on Wednesday that the election of Barack Obama was the sign of a new political reality in the United States.
From The Kalamazoo Gazette:
“The last election changed America in way many people don’t understand yet,” Dean told an audience at the downtown Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites. “For the first time in my life, more people voted who were under the age of 35 than those over the age of 65. That is an earthquake.”
Dean also said the GOP will regain strength, but only after it becomes more centrist:
“They have a very strong contingent on the right that’s not comfortable to a lot of Americans,” Dean said. “There’s a very, very militant right and the people who challenge that now end up like Arlen Specter, getting challenged by someone in his own party.”
Dean also said he supported President Obama’s health care plan.
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