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.
After very narrowly winning reelection in 2008, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick faces a tough primary battle. Her campaign filed its finance report with the FEC this week and reports having $271,952 in cash on hand with three weeks to go until the primary.
Her principle opponent, state Sen. Hansen Clarke, has not yet filed a 2nd quarter finance report, but at the end of the 1st quarter reported having just over $71,000 in his war chest.
Kilpatrick probably retains a significant fundraising advantage over Clarke, but she had an even bigger advantage over her primary opponents in 2008 when she very narrowly retained her seat in a three-way primary.
And that was before the latest rounds of legal trouble for her son, disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is in prison for parole violations and now facing 19 new charges of fraud and tax evasion. Polls last year showed that this was having an effect on voters, with a majority in her own district saying that they would vote for any hypothetical opponent rather than for Kilpatrick.
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