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.
Andrew Sullivan, senior editor of “The Atlantic,” during his October 19 appearance on The Chris Matthews Show, had the following to say about the voter-registration group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the McCain campaign’s attacks on it:
The McCain campaign has now two camps, and one of them is already assuming that he’s lost and he’s aiming for the post-election warfare in the Republican Party. And part of that is the ACORN strategy, which is trying to de-legitimize the result in advance if Obama were to win by saying it was rigged by minority voters. That’s what this is about.
ACORN, for what it’s worth, concedes that, in some instances, their employees have submitted bogus registration forms in hopes of being compensated for work they did not do. (ACORN says it has employed over 13,000 people to collect registrations during this current campaign, registering over 1.3 million people.) In almost all of those cases, however, according to ACORN officials, it has been their internal auditing people who have flagged the suspicious applications and brought them to the attention of election officials. Despite ACORN’s statements, conservative commentators and senior officials in the McCain campaign have inferred that the organization is somehow trying to attempt voter fraud.
In cooperation with Brave New Films, a producer of political documentaries, ACORN released Wednesday a video exploring the controversy and presenting their case that bogus “voter fraud charges” aim to camouflage voter suppression in minority and economically impoverished areas… Here’s the video:
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