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.
In a sad turn of events, the Mackinac Center, the conservative think tank behind a controversial Freedom of Information Act request aimed at labor relations experts at three Michigan universities, has received death threats in response to that request.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Four messages appeared to be from one woman. The other may have been from another woman, though in that call she left a name and indicated she lived in a neighboring state. The center declined to release the name or the state…
In one of the calls to the Mackinac Center, the caller said, “Scotty Walker is dead. So are you. We know where you live.” She then recited the center’s address and said, “We are coming to destroy you.”
In another call, the caller said, “You are the first place to be bombed.”
Midland Police Chief Gerald Ladwig confirmed an investigation is under way and said it was too early to determine how serious the caller or callers were.
“It’s very hard to know how to take these threats,” Jahr said. “They were definitely very troubling to listen to.”
There should be no place for such threats in political discourse, no matter how incorrect one might believe their opponents to be.
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