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.
I suspect the GOP is scrambling to put together focus groups right now, to see what will play well in the wake of this week’s DNC Convention. How do they top this week’s events, of which these are only the tippy-top of the mountain?
Sandwiched in between are many exceptional speeches by progressive luminaries like Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Teddy Kennedy and former vice president Al Gore, all of them “coming out swinging” as well as just being plain folk.
It was an overflowing cornucopia of personalities all week, marking important events like the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and the 88th anniversary of women’s right to vote as they celebrated the nomination of their presidential candidate.
But the other invisible yet massive presence at this convention was a singular, unifying spirit — a palpable energy that could be felt through the phosphors emitted on this laptop and across the vastness of fly-over country between here in Michigan and Colorado.
PUMA people and the potential for disruption they posed to the Democratic Party faded away entirely by the end of Obama’s speech on Thursday night. The energy was large, luminous, emitting a gravitational pull on even the hardest of critics and cynics like a force of nature.
One of our team members wrote earlier on Thursday about the rumor that the GOP may delay its convention next week out of concern about Hurricane Gustav. After the build-up all week that culminated in the powerhouse that was the closing event of the DNC convention Thursday night, one wonders if the storm that worries the GOP is not on the one in the Gulf of Mexico but the one unleashed in the Rocky Mountains last night.
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