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.
As the state criminal trial for assault ends for Sam Riddle and the federal bribery and corruption trial is about to begin — a trial in which he is a co-defendant with the victim he was just convicted of pulling a shotgun on in the assault trial — the whole sordid relationship between Riddle and Waters may have reached the zenith of its own weird, self-referential surreality.
In a Detroit Free Press report, Waters laments the conviction of Riddle for pulling a shotgun on her:
Police and prosecutors set their sights on Sam Riddle, and now they have him, a morose Mary Waters said Wednesday after a jury convicted him of assaulting her.
“They were out to get Sam,” Waters said. “Sam is their trophy, and it’s just not right.”
This is the woman who A) called 911 on Riddle after he did it and B) testified just a few days ago that he and the woman he was in bed with were lying when they said they weren’t in bed together and that he didn’t brandish a gun at her. This is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch.
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