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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

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ADA accuses Fox News of indecency

By Ed Brayton | 01.12.11 | 7:37 am

The Fremont, Michigan-based American Decency Association is calling on its members to pressure Fox News to remove what it considers to be indecent material on the conservative news organization’s website.

The ADA’s Bill Johnson calls on the group’s followers to “to be discerning, to warn, to exhort, to encourage others to keep themselves from images, themes and programs that Satan can use to take us down paths that will desensitize, degrade, and destroy” and cites another decency advocate about ostensibly immoral material on Foxnews.com.

The group does not cite any specific things about the Fox News website that they don’t approve of but the source they quote says that the site “has moved more and more towards being a tabloid site featuring all kinds of sleazy articles and pictures.”

Comments

  • Anonymous

    Who cares, I’ve never heard of the ADA.