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.
The race for the 7th Congressional District is stirring up bad blood, as the national anti-tax group Club for Growth emerges front-and-center in a campaign controversy.
Incumbent one-term Republican Congressman Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, told The Jackson Citizen Patriot in July 2006 he was “bought and paid for” by the anti-tax group, and now the group has launched an ad against Walberg’s Democratic challenger Mark Schauer.
Club for Growth made a $175,000 media buy in the Lansing air and cable markets to run the commercials that criticize Schauer’s record on taxes.
This is not the first time Club for Growth has dabbled in the 7th.
Walberg won his primary against Republican incumbent Joe Schwartz two years ago when Club for Growth attacked Schwartz, a pastor, as too liberal for the district that includes parts of Lansing, Jackson and Battle Creek.
And with the Club reappearing in the district this year, Schwartz has publicly announced he is endorsing Democrat Schauer for the seat.
“The Club for Growth is in [the fight] and I can’t, as a matter of principle, stay out of it any longer,” Schwartz told The Associated Press. “That to me is the straw that broke the camel’s back. I object to political dabblers who stand for nothing other than to create havoc and dabble in a congressional race where they truly have no interest.”
Schwartz, who is a former state senator and former mayor of Battle Creek, said he supported Schauer because, “It’s appropriate to have someone who knows the area and understands the problems … I think Mark certainly fits that bill.”
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