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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.

McCain’s internal email and debate plans snafu’d — what next?

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 09.25.08 | 8:39 am

What else could possibly go wrong for Republican presidential candidate John McCain? The poor guy had a perfectly awful, no-good day yesterday, and today is not looking much better:

  • · Polls yesterday morning show Obama leading McCain on the economy among voters;

  • · McCain suspends campaign, ostensibly to address economy, ditching CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman” to do so — but then he visits Katie Couric instead. Not a smart move, as the video above demonstrates;

  • · The McCain team does a boo-boo, our sister site Colorado Independent reports; a team member sent out an internal-only memo to reporters with talking points about the campaign’s suspension;

  • · McCain’s request to delay Friday’s presidential debate until a bailout plan has been reached by Congress is shrugged off by his opponent. Obama says this is the time when the American public should hear from candidates about their positions on the economy;

  • · Veep candidate Palin also meets with Katie Couric yesterday. Lucky for her that McCain’s later interview with Couric pushed her interview down — or was that the plan?

  • · And Palin continues to be a tarball-and-chain of trouble, what with the National Enquirer publishing an article about an extramarital romance yesterday between Palin and her husband’s former business partner, a video surfacing of Palin’s blessing by an apparently anti-Semitic witch hunter, and a possible witness tampering charge brewing back home in Alaska.

    • What fresh hell could McCain encounter today?

    Oh yeah, the public doesn’t think much of the delayed debate campaign “stunt” — and that’s before the second cup of coffee has been consumed.

    Comments

    • Kwaayesnama

      MCCAIN CAN’T USE COMPUTER LIE

      HURRY UP PULL OUT THE FLAG AND WAVE LIKE HELL

      have a problem with GOP lies. They look us in the eye and tell us something without blinking and we the people fall in line.
      1. We have to send our sons and daughters to die looking for weapons of mass destruction.
      2. Sedam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.
      3. Iraqi oil will pay for the war.
      4. Mission accomplished.
      5. Our economy is basically strong.
      6. We are fundamentally better off during the bush administration.

      7. John McCain campaign statement that he is not able to use a computer because of his suffering as a prisoner of war. Now here is my problem with that scenario.

      a. On July 13, 2008 in a New York Times interview john McCain said: “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”
      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/1…

      b. On Rachel Ray John McCain whipped up a batch of ribs. I would like a medical opinion on what different muscles are used to barbecue ribs that you would have to use on a keyboard.

      It is time to look in their eyes – not blink – and say “Stop lying to us?”

    • Kwaayesnama

      MCCAIN CAN’T USE COMPUTER LIE

      HURRY UP PULL OUT THE FLAG AND WAVE LIKE HELL

      have a problem with GOP lies. They look us in the eye and tell us something without blinking and we the people fall in line.
      1. We have to send our sons and daughters to die looking for weapons of mass destruction.
      2. Sedam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.
      3. Iraqi oil will pay for the war.
      4. Mission accomplished.
      5. Our economy is basically strong.
      6. We are fundamentally better off during the bush administration.

      7. John McCain campaign statement that he is not able to use a computer because of his suffering as a prisoner of war. Now here is my problem with that scenario.

      a. On July 13, 2008 in a New York Times interview john McCain said: “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”
      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/1…

      b. On Rachel Ray John McCain whipped up a batch of ribs. I would like a medical opinion on what different muscles are used to barbecue ribs that you would have to use on a keyboard.

      It is time to look in their eyes – not blink – and say “Stop lying to us?”

    • Kwaayesnama

      MCCAIN CAN’T USE COMPUTER LIE

      HURRY UP PULL OUT THE FLAG AND WAVE LIKE HELL

      have a problem with GOP lies. They look us in the eye and tell us something without blinking and we the people fall in line.
      1. We have to send our sons and daughters to die looking for weapons of mass destruction.
      2. Sedam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.
      3. Iraqi oil will pay for the war.
      4. Mission accomplished.
      5. Our economy is basically strong.
      6. We are fundamentally better off during the bush administration.

      7. John McCain campaign statement that he is not able to use a computer because of his suffering as a prisoner of war. Now here is my problem with that scenario.

      a. On July 13, 2008 in a New York Times interview john McCain said: “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”
      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/us/politics/1…

      b. On Rachel Ray John McCain whipped up a batch of ribs. I would like a medical opinion on what different muscles are used to barbecue ribs that you would have to use on a keyboard.

      It is time to look in their eyes – not blink – and say “Stop lying to us?”

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