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.
Is Michigan ready for an openly gay Congressman?
Voters will have to add that variable into their voting plans in Michigan’s 5th Congressional District in August. There, long time Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Flint) is facing a challenge from small business owner Scott Withers. Kildee is 80 and been in the seat for 17 terms (that’s 34 years). Withers is 37 and has a varied history in the media over the years.
Withers has served stints at CNN and Q Television. He runs a small communications firm. He’s been with his partner, Lane, for 10 years, reports the Dallas Voice, a gay newspaper in Dallas.
If Withers beats Kildee in August — which in the current anti-incumbency furor nationwide is not outside the realm of possibilities — and wins the general in November, he would become Michigan’s first openly gay Congressman. He would join Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), Jared Polis (D-Colorado) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in the ranks of the out gay politicians in the nation’s capitol.
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