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 the wake of our reporting on Republican plans to challenge voters whose homes are in foreclosure, officials in Ohio and Maryland have issued advisories clarifying what people in foreclosure should expect at the polls.
But Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has refused to address any questions on the matter.
Here’s one possible explanation: Land’s longtime political consultant, Grand Rapids-native John Yob, is John McCain’s national deputy political director.
From the Center for Public Integrity:
Unlike famous (or infamous) secretaries of state of yore like Katherine Harris of Florida or Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio, Land does not work directly for her party’s nominee. (Harris and Blackwell were both co-chairs for President Bush’s campaigns.) But while she may not sit in on campaign conference calls, she certainly knows people who are. Her longtime political consultant, John Yob, now serves as a deputy political director the McCain campaign. Yob wrote Land’s campaign plan and TV ads for her 2002 race and earned more than $40,000 as a consultant for her 2006 reelection campaign.
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