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.
Early voting began Oct. 6 in Indiana for voters with disabilities, voters who are 65 years old or older, and voters who cannot make it to the polls due to work, injury or religious discipline. Early voting centers have been particularly busy in the Democratic stronghold of Lake County. Republicans, citing the potential for voter fraud, failed in a court petition to shut down polling places there.
According to the Chesterton Tribune, Lake County Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias-Schneider, in whose courtroom the case was heard, at one point asked, “What of those who have already voted?” R. Lawrence Steele, one of the GOP lawyers, replied, “Maybe those votes should be discarded.”
Judge Kavadias-Schneider, after touring early voting facilities in the cities of Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, and interviewing County Elections Board Director Sally LaSota and others, determined that safeguards against voter fraud were in place, and dismissed the case Wednesday.
There was, as far as I can tell, no incident of voter fraud that instigated the Republican complaint.
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