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.
Geoffery Feiger, an outspoken attorney from the Detroit area, is considering a second bid for the governor’s mansion in Lansing.
Feiger won the nomination in 1998, and was defeated by incumbent John Engler. But that history is not slowing the man best known as Jack Kervorkian’s defense attorney down.
“The Democrats in this state would be inclined to support me,” he said this morning on WJR AM-760, citing a recent poll indicating his anticipated front-runner status. “I think that would last and I would win the primary.”
In the interview, he went on to note that he thinks Republicans will win this year, notes that the state has become “like Mississippi,” and rails against the gutting of Detroit.
If Feiger gets into the race, he will face off with Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero, Andy Dillon a Redford Township Democrat and Speaker of the Michigan House; and Alma Wheeler Smith, a state representative from Salem Township.
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