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.
Here’s another entry in the pattern of racist statements from prominent young Republican activists mentioned in an earlier article. David Weigel of our sister site, the Washington Independent, catches this statement from Jason Mattera, spokesman from Young America’s Foundation, on his Twitter feed:
“If Sotomayor gained life experience from The Ghetto, does that mean she’d have a tendency to shank Scalia?”
Mattera’s bio at the YAF webpage calls him “the surprisingly fresh face of conservatism” and says that he “has spoken at conferences and schools across the US, written for many conservative publications, including Human Events, National Review Online, and Townhall.com, and represented young conservatives on television’s ‘Hannity and Colmes,’ ‘Fox & Friends,’ ‘Hardball,’ ‘Washington Journal’ and on dozens of radio shows including the Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, and Michael Reagan programs.” Fresh face indeed.
The Young America’s Foundation is a different organization than Young Americans for Freedom.
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