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 state Sen. Mark Schauer in Battle Creek, Mich. (photo: Todd A. Heywood)
OK, I admit that in the annals of political gift-giving, this one ranks pretty low. But it was fun, to a point. Democratic state Sen. Mark Schauer, who is in a tight battle with U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Jackson, for the 7th Congressional District, was a featured speaker at the Barack Obama/Joe Biden Road Trip for Change stop in Battle Creek, and before a crowd of 18,000, he presented a specially made box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
There were two problems with this move. First, Obama and Biden didn’t arrive in the stadium until about 40 minutes after the presentation. Secondly, um, Mark? The box is roughly the size of a piece of paper, and there were not JumboTrons projecting your image to the 18,000 people. So only the people in the front row, who had been standing there since 4 p.m., actually saw the box.
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