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 Messenger editor Ed Brayton is quoted extensively in an article on the Huffington Post about the recent shenanigans in Texas where the State Board of Education has been rewriting history and the social studies standards for the state at the same time.
The school board last week actually removed Thomas Jefferson — who played a key role in both the American and French revolutions — and the entire Enlightenment era from a history standard dealing with influences on 18th century political revolutions. They replaced those with Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin, two famous figures in Christian history who had nothing at all to do with any political revolutions in the 18th century.
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