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 race for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District seat is heating up again. Republican incumbent Tim Walberg unleashed a new advertisement Wednesday against his Democratic rival, state Senator Mark Schauer featuring a Jackson insurance agent named Kathy Potts. During the commercial, Potts says Schauer raised taxes and accuses him of allowing adults to send porno to children.
She then says:
“Both times Mark Schauer put our children’s future at risk and I won’t forget that on election day.”
Schauer wasted no time in attacking the ad, first in a press release and then in a response-video rebutting the allegations. In the release, Schauer’s press release carried the shouted-out, all-caps headline, “LIES FROM DESPERATE WALBERG CAMPAIGN IN DESPICABLE NEW ATTACK AD.”
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