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.
Give the conservative talk show host Frank Beckmann credit for having Michigan Messenger on the air Tuesday to discuss reporter Eartha Melzer’s report on Republican Party plans to use foreclosure lists in challenging voters on Election Day.
We may often disagree with WJR-Detroit‘s local morning radio host but he held a feisty but fair discussion featuring Michigan-based Melzer and our Washington D.C.-based national editorial director Jefferson Morley.
Also of special interest was the segment Beckmann had with Michigan Republican Party Chair Saul Anuzis after Melzer and Morley clicked off (which is included at the end of the MP3 linked below). In it, Anuzis suggested that Michigan Messenger is somehow part of some master plan by the Democratic Party to “distract” people away from alleged voter fraud on the part of the Democrats.
I can assure Anuzis that we do not take marching orders from the Democratic Party. The idea of our being part of some massive, coordinated conspiracy by Nancy Pelosi is pretty funny to all of us here at the home office. The Democrats barely send us their press releases!
We are issue-oriented, in favor of democracy, justice and accountability. The Dems are not our saviors simply because of their party affiliation. Sometimes even Republicans get some of that stuff right, and Democrats often get it wrong — a point to which both Melzer and Morley speak in the interview.
Listen to Melzer and Morley mix it up with Beckmann here.
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