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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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AARP – MILHS protest in images

By Ed Brayton | 03.15.11 | 1:44 pm

The AARP and the Michigan League for Human Services held a protest at 11 am on the grounds of the state Capitol building in opposition to Gov. Snyder’s plan to shift more than a billion dollars of the state tax burden from businesses to seniors and the working poor.

Here are some of the protest signs that accompanied chants of “That’s not fair” from the crowd:

Comments

  • http://twitter.com/marabout40 Dionne J.

    Is that all the AARP could muster up? Guess the seniors are too busy consuming Fox’s “fair & balanced” propaganda to be concerned about their own self-interests.

    • http://twitter.com/secondgen B2

      Hey Marabout! Word has it, there were about 1000 or so there. I couldn’t make it. I doubt I can make it tomorrow for the Labor rally, either. :( But it wasn’t bad, and Lance Enderle, candidate for MI 08 led a group of people who took over the capitol for a while. Got tossed by MSP.

  • Anonymous

    Today, six of us from Battle Creek attended the rally. We all felt that the message was welcome delivered. However, the message outside of the doors of the capitol seldom reach the ears of the deaf and power blind – so called – representative insdie the building.

    Emails are a convenience, we should set a goal of one million hand-written letters, mailed on the same day of the week, and all addressed to Slippery Synder.

    What date shall we pick?

  • Anonymous

    I belong to aarp and am a senior and am voting republican to get rid of all you progessive/marxist communist supporting union bastards in the government unions.