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.
Just one day after visiting the state, news that Sen. John McCain would return to Michigan next week leaked out.
McCain plans to visit Michigan for back-to-back big-ticket fund-raisers on Aug. 13, according to the Detroit Free Press. Both are scheduled to be held in Birmingham, in McCain’s stronghold of Oakland County, at the Big Rock Chop House and the tony Townsend Hotel.
According to an invitation obtained by the Freep, the Townsend event’s hosts include Jim Nicholson, president of PVS Chemical, John Rakolta, chair of Walbridge Aldinger, developers C. Michael Kojaian and Robert Schostak, Ambassador Ron Weiser and state Attorney General Mike Cox. Individual tickets run $2,300 to $28,500 and benefit McCain Victory 2008, a federal political action committee.
The Big Rock event is aimed at young professionals whose youth is no impediment to making bank: individual tickets cost $500 to $10,000.
McCain’s upcoming visits might help the Republican candidate recoup some of the press coverage he lost yesterday to local events: the candidate’s visit Tuesday to the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe County competed, unsuccessfully overall, for press attention with the state’s primary elections.
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