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.
John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. In and of itself, the revelation is no knock on Palin’s parenting says Jeff Morley, national editorial director of Michigan Messenger’s parent organization, The Center for Independent Media.
A parent himself, Jeff knows kids will be kids and he probably also knows it’s easy to judge parents from afar.
This potentially embarrassing situation for the Republicans falls less at the feet of Gov. Palin, writes Jeff, and more at the righteous altar of fundamentalism and its calls against prophylactics and its blind insistence on abstinence, which we all know doesn’t exist outside the world of 40-something computer programmers in Silicon Valley.
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