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.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer came out swinging after the announcement by Rick Snyder that he would run for the Republican nomination for governor in 2010, issuing a blistering press release attacking Snyder for sending American jobs overseas when he was the CEO of Gateway Computers:
“All you need to do is look at Rick Snyder’s record to know he is Dick DeVos Junior,” Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer said. “Snyder and his Wall Street friends made an enormous amount of money while wrecking the economy and sending American jobs overseas. That’s not the type of leadership we need in Michigan.”
“Rick Snyder’s bio reads just like DeVos and George W. Bush,” Brewer said. “He thinks he has all the answers simply because he has an MBA. Bush thought the same thing and look where that got us.”
Thousands of American jobs were sent to China while Snyder was a director of the computer company Gateway.
Gateway is now owned by Taiwan-based Acer Inc., but that sale happened a decade after Snyder left the company. A Snyder spokesman denied the charge when Brewer originally made it, several weeks before Snyder announced he was running.
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