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.
A former candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge Congressman John Dingell has filed a lawsuit against Facebook claiming that the social networking company deleted his account, causing irreparable harm to campaign.
Majed Moughni filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court at the end of February. He claims in the suit that Facebook suspended his account in early June, causing his campaign to collapse.
“I had no chance without Facebook,” said Moughni, 40. “They disorganized us in the middle of our campaign and we lost. Facebook took us off the market. They took us off the face of the earth.”
The attorney says that he doesn’t want any of the billions of dollars Facebook is worth, rather he wants an injunction preventing the company from suspending accounts. Facebook says it uses a system which identifies questionable accounts, including those which have a high rate of friend requests and rejections. Once flagged, the page can be frozen or deleted. The company also says it prohibits registered sex offenders from having accounts, and uses the same programming to identify potential offenders who have an unusually high number of friend requests to people of one specific gender or age, Michigan Messenger reported last year.
As for Moughni, he says that the loss of Facebook resulted in him losing the primary. He finished fourth in a four way race, and had only four percent of the primary vote.
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