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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.

Controversial MSU student group gets nod from national ‘hate group’

By Todd A. Heywood | 09.23.08 | 1:27 pm

The students involved in Michigan State University’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) student group are cooing about their recognition in July on the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) Web site. The CofCC Web site noted Spartan Spectator, the official blog of MSU YAF, as a pro-white blog.

Their list of “pro-white blogs” is introduced as follows on the CofCC Web site:

What was once the sole domain of the far-left, has become a battleground for the far-right in recent months. Internet “blogs” [expressing] an explicit “pro-white” point of view are popping up everywhere. Whereas, a few years ago the anti-white, far-left “lovemongers” had a lock on the “blogosphere,” you are now just as likely to find people attacking multi-culturalism and political correctness.

The CofCC is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as is the MSU YAF chapter. In 2007, when the MSU chapter was listed as a hate group, then-chairman of YAF, Kyle Bristow, denied the group was anything like the neo-Nazis or the KKK.

“They don’t have a right to compare us to Nazis or the KKK when we’re not like that,” Bristow told the MSU newspaper The State News.

Since that time, Bristow has been linked to numerous white nationalists and in April he hosted an appearance by Canadian neo-Nazi Paul Fromm.

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