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.
If Mitt Romney’s convictions are correct, it looks like Obama’s gonna win the election.
On the warm evening of July 14, Romney told the 200 attendees at the grand opening of McCain’s Great Lakes Regional Headquarters:
“I’m convinced that whoever wins the state of Michigan will be the next president of the United States.”
GOP strategists told the press that they picked the Farmington Hills location in Oakland County, Mich., as the regional GOP campaign headquarters for a reason: Oakland County is a swing county that has been pivotal in making Michigan a Democratic state for the past two decades.
According to Chuck Yob, co-chairman of the McCain campaign’s Michigan Committee, Oakland County is vital to the chances of swinging the state red. “In order for us to win Michigan, we have got to win Oakland County, and that’s one of the reasons why this main, big headquarters is here. To show you how important it is.”
Now, just a little more than two months since opening day, Oakland County is suddenly either less important or a lost cause.
The McCain camp threw in the towel on the glove state late last week when it looked at the polls showing that Michigan was “signed, sealed, delivered” to Obama, as goes the Stevie Wonder song Obama likes to play at his rallies.
Photos of moving boxes at the McCain Great Lakes Regional Headquarters are kind of symbolic of how the majority of likely Michigan voters feel about McCain.
But if nothing else, Mitt Romney got a shining moment to talk about his relationship with McCain at the July event.
“[McCain] is a man who knows how to categorize birds and how to shoot birds and how to cook them and I think he knows something about how to run our nation as well.”
Knowing how to shoot and cook birds obviously wasn’t enough to convince Michigan voters that he was the man for them.
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