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.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce may be overwhelmingly Republican in the candidates they endorse, but local chambers of commerce are more diverse in their choices. Rep. Mark Schauer, the Democratic incumbent from the 7th District, has received the endorsement of the two major chambers in his district — the Battle Creek and Marshall Chambers of Congress — as well as the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Interestingly, all three of those chambers endorsed his opponent, Republican Tim Walberg, during their 2008 campaign against one another. Schauer won that race and now Walberg is trying to regain his seat.
Schauer has also gotten the endorsement of the VFW, which is also typically a conservative-leaning organization, along with some of the more traditional Democratic constituencies like the Sierra Club and the major labor unions.
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