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.
Saying that presidents have to be able to handle more than one thing at once, Democrat Barack Obama this afternoon declined Republican presidential opponent John McCain’s call to suspend his campaign in tandem with McCain over the country’s financial crisis.
There are those who cynically view McCain’s move as a public relations stunt. Joan Walsh, editor of Salon, took the news of McCain suspending his campaign at face value as being politically motivated; she has questioned the wisdom of such a move on a tactical level.
It would appear that if the unexpected suspension by McCain were politically motivated, the intended result would be to paint the Arizona senator in a time when his polls are trending downward as a man of action and a patriot willing to put partisanship aside in a time of crisis.
Surely Fox News on the right will have much venom for the Obama campaign for not following McCain’s lead.
It remains to be seen how the divergent chess moves by McCain and Obama will play with the 18 percent of voters undecided in the middle.
Also in doubt, of course, is the scheduled premiere presidential debate slated for 9 p.m. Friday.
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