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 bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council voted unanimously late Friday to release the findings of independent investigator Stephen Branchflower. Branchflower had been hired by the ALC to investigate the firing of former Alaska director of public safety, Walt Monegan.
The report concluded that there is evidence that Alaska Gov. and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin violated the state’s ethics laws.
Michigan Messenger’s sister site, The Washington Independent, has more on the story from Alaska by Laura McGann. Michigan blogger Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake has analysis of the report; both Laura’s and Marcy’s posts have links to a pdf format file of the 263 page public report.
The New York Times is also reporting the story, as is the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, in the Dallas News, Republicans are denying the report does anything but vindicate the governor.
The McCain campaign said the report showed Ms. Palin “acted within her proper and lawful authority.” In a written statement, a campaign spokeswoman said that the investigation “seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact.”
Ms. Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, disputed the finding that the governor violated the ethics law because the investigator had “failed to identify any financial gain” in her actions.
The Dallas News did not identify the campaign spokesperson.
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