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.
While Tim Walberg has the enormous spending of the American Future Fund on his side in his fight to regain the seat he lost in Congress in 2008, his opponent, Rep. Mark Schauer, is getting some help from a third-party group as well — the Sierra Club.
The venerable environmental group is not going to spend vast sums on TV commercials, but they are sending out mailers in the 7th District:
The Sierra Club today started the first wave of what will be 160,000 mailings in the Michigan’s 7th congressional district made in support of U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer’s re-election bid.
Each of four separate pieces will be direct mailed to 40,000 households in the district…
In the mailings sponsored by the Sierra Club and its joint effort with the United Steelworkers, the Blue Green Alliance, the groups say Schauer has backed policies that would create alternative energy jobs in the U.S. and reduce American reliance on foreign oil. Walberg, the groups say, “rejects policies that increase America’s energy independence.”
The mailings will cost about $90,000, the group says, less than 20 percent of what the American Future Fund is spending on the other side.
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