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.
“They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families,” said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Mich., referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The steward, Tom Kerrins, spoke at a “town hall” meeting held in a local church yesterday to oppose the transfer of terror suspects to Standish.
Local restaurant owner David Munson, inspired by the attention given to recent health care “town hall” meetings held around the country, decide to organize his own meeting to oppose moving Guantanamo detainees to the maximum-security prison in his town. Federal officials toured the facility last week to determine whether it might be able to house some Guantanamo detainees. President Obama has promised to close the prison in Cuba by January.
Yesterday’s meeting, held at Resurrection of the Lord Church, was reportedly dominated by opponents of the plan, who fear it would make the town of 1,500 residents a terrorist target. The Standish prison is currently slated to close due to state budget cuts.
“I just wouldn’t want to live with it up here too close to me,” Merle Decker, who lives across a cornfield from the prison, told a local TV news station. “Them people are liable to do anything.”
City Manager Michael Moran, however, said a “silent majority” of local residents would consider accepting the detainees in their town to save the prison, where about 340 people work, making it the area’s largest employer.
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