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.
Tea Party darling Sharron Angle of Nevada has made the Michigan city of Dearborn part of the political fodder in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The Associated Press reports Angle told a crowd of supporters in Mesquite, NV, that Dearborn has been taken over by militant Islamic law.
The statement came during a question and answer session when Angle was asked about “Muslims wanting to take over the United States.”
My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States,” she said. “It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.”
Dearborn has a high population of Muslims, and has recently been in the news because it prosecuted a group of evangelical Christians who attempted to proclaim their faith at an Arab festival in the city. The Christians were found not guilty.
Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly called Angle’s comments “shameful.”
“She took it as face value and maligned the city of Dearborn and I consider that totally irresponsible,” he said. “If she wants to come here, I will take her on a tour. I will show her we follow the Constitution just as well as anyone else.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations in D.C. also weighed in on the Angle comments, calling them “bizarre.”
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