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.
The Department of Defense announced Tuesday the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Kristopher D. Rodgers, 29, of Sturgis, Mich., died Aug. 16 in Korengal, Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas.
He is survived by his wife and 3½-year-old son.
The Taliban appears to have not only regrouped, but also strengthened their capabilities in recent months with some alarming results.
The Guardian reports:
Ten French soldiers have been killed and 21 wounded after a Taliban ambush 40 miles east of the Afghan capital, Kabul. According to Afghan officials, four of the soldiers were executed after being captured or “kidnapped” during a two-day running battle with more than 100 insurgents.
President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to arrive in Afghanistan this morning to show troops that “France was by their sides.” The casualties were mostly from France’s 8th parachute regiment, recently arrived as part of a controversial reinforcement of the French presence in Afghanistan ordered by Sarkozy earlier this year
Elsewhere, a team of suicide bombers attempted to storm American and Afghan national army (ANA) bases near the eastern city of Khost, the second major assault on the positions in 24 hours. In the past three days, more than 100 people have died during fighting and bombings around the country. “We had an OK winter and a good spring but we are having a tough summer,” said one official from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
Earlier this month marked a grim milestone for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the 500th U.S. soldier to die in what’s become known as “the forgotten war” to many, as it has been overshadowed these past five years by the war in Iraq.
Afghan civilians have also suffered during this latest violence, with 472 casualties this year between January and July, an increase of 30 percent over the same time period last year. Also, despite the presence of approximately 33,000 US troops — more than at any other time during the war in Afghanistan — May, June, and July of 2008 was the most deadly three-month period for U.S. troops based in Afghanistan than at any other time since the war began in 2001.
Michigan’s Staff Sgt. Rodgers was the 578th U.S. casualty, according to iCasualties.org, a site that documents both military and civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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