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.
Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Flint) won’t be getting the backing of Michigan Right to Life in this fall’s election. That endorsement, for the first time in many years, went to his Republican opponent John Kupiec, reports the Saginaw News.
Kildee, who has been a staunch anti-abortion Democrat since being elected to the Congress in 1978, has not been endorsed by Right to Life in several years, but the organization has chosen not to endorse his opponents. That all changed this year because Kildee voted in favor of controversial health care reform legislation. Anti-abortion advocates argue the law opens the door to taxpayer funded abortions — even though President Barack Obama issued an executive order to prevent taxpayer cash from funding the procedure.
“His voting record isn’t 100 percent with us, so we endorsed his opponent,” said Larry Galmish, director of Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Committee based in Grand Rapids. “Health care is a definite problem because it opened the gates to federal funding of abortion.”
Kildee faced a challenge on the left in the primary by openly gay Democrat Scott Withers. Withers assailed Kildee for his anti-abortion stance over and over during his ill fated campaign.
Political watchers question how much influence the endorsement may actually have in the race, noting the outcome of the GOP gubernatorial race. In that race Right to Life Michigan chose to endorse only Mike Cox, while ignoring the anti-abortion stances of both Pete Hoekstra and Tom George. Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder ended up winning that primary, and pundits say the Right to Life endorsement split the conservative vote up so much it opened the door for a Snyder win.
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