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.
A voicemail from Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) in which he cancels his planned appearance at a Capitol rally with Quran-burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones has been posted on the website of one of the rally organizers.
James Terpening put the audio up on his website, OperationFreedomsTree.org.
“This is Rep. Agema calling back. Apparently I didn’t know about meetings my staff had scheduled me for and I can’t make that. And I found out because I was working for Habitat for Humanity today and then they called me and said hey did you look at your schedule. And I said well which schedule. But anyway they found because you posted it on the internet or something and I’m not going to be able to make that. Sorry about that.”
The voicemail supports both the official version of the cancelled appearance put out Tuesday by Agema’s office, as well as supports claims by Terpening and Jones that the lawmaker called them to ask to participate. Agema’s office denies that he called Jones.
Agema was scheduled to discuss his “foreign laws” legislation which would prohibit foreign laws — Agema consistently refers to Islamic Shariah law in promoting the legislation — from superseding the state and federal Constitutions.
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