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.
Iiiiiiiit’s Biden!
Barack Obama notified his supporters at about 3 a.m. Saturday that Senate colleague Joe Biden of Delaware was his pick to be vice president.
The middle-of-the-night notice came a few hours after the word began to leak out through other channels, which the Obama campaign had managed to keep securely dammed all week.
Biden brings gray hair, experience and Roman Catholicism to a ticket whose leader has been heavily criticized for his youthfulness and lack of experience and rumored to be Muslim. What Biden doesn’t bring is a swing state, which each of the other contenders – Gov. Tom Kaine of Virginia, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas – did.
In what feels like ancient history, Biden was one of Obama’s opponents for the Dem nomination, before the star power of the Illinois senator and of Hillary Clinton forced everyone else in the field to bow out. But before he went, Biden helped keep the other hopefuls on their toes with his richly nuanced grasp of foreign policy and quick-witted retorts during the debates. (In perhaps the most famous line of the debates, Biden said of Republican contender Rudy Giuliani, “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence – a noun, a verb and 9/11.”)
I thought Biden’s early departure from the race was a shame, because in any year where it had been a normal race – when two candidates didn’t so completely dominate – Biden would have had a real shot. He’s experienced, smart and funny. He has a tendency to verbally shoot himself in the foot, which will surely keep the tightly managed Obama campaign on its toes.
For the first time in recent memory, the vice presidential debate might actually be fun and interesting to watch this year.
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