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.
Amy Goodman and an unspecified number of her Democracy Now! colleagues have been arrested in St. Paul, Minn. this evening. From raw audio recorded by Indymedia and linked at our sister site Minnesota Independent and in the video embedded here, the rationale for the arrest is unclear.
Another report from our Minnesota affiliate indicates approximately 100 people were rounded up and placed under arrest; it’s not certain from the video recorded during the roundup whether members of the UpTake video journalism team were also arrested. The UpTake video team can be heard asking whether members of Minnesota Public Radio are also being arrested at the same time, in the same crowd.
The raids and arrests in Minnesota over the last two days are stark when compared with Chinese response to protests during the recent Beijing Olympics.
(Be sure to check for updates at our sister site, Minnesota Independent.)
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