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.
Here’s one of the stranger stories of the election season. Majed Moughni, who ran in the Republican primary for the right to challenge Rep. John Dingell for his seat in Congress and got only 4 percent of the vote, is now suing Dingell for using a catchphrase that Moughni claims he invented and posted to his Facebook page long before Dingell started using it. The Detroit News reports:
Just how much is the phrase “Make It In America” worth?
Defeated Republican U.S. House hopeful Majed Moughni says at least $25,000. The Dearborn lawyer is suing Rep. John Dingell , D-Dearborn, charging he ripped off Moughni’s campaign slogan, “Make It In America.”
In the lawsuit filed in Wayne Circuit Court, Moughni charges Dingell with “plagairism” (sic) and claims Dingell started using the phrase on July 27, months after it first appeared in February on the Facebook campaign page for Moughni. “(Dingell) has been in office for 55 years and I’ve never heard him use that before,” Moughni told Political Insider.
Dingell’s office dismisses the lawsuit as frivolous and doesn’t sound terribly worried about it.
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