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 Election Protection hotline (866-OUR-VOTE) has received reports that police arrested a man on a warrant while he was standing in line to vote at Jefferson Middle School in Pontiac.
Michigan Messenger contacted the Pontiac Police Department and spoke to Lt. Fly, who said, “No sir, that is not true. No one was arrested.” Sgt. Schroeder of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department likewise told us, “We have no record of an arrest. I spoke to our warrant clerks and they haven’t pulled any warrants.”
The report called into the hotline said that other voters in line during the arrest in Pontiac left the polling place soon after. Voting rights advocates assert that arrests at polling places are undemocratic and suppress voter turnout by intimidating would-be voters.
Harold Pope, a voting rights attorney who is heading up the Election Protection response in Michigan, told the Messenger that it does not look like this was an attempt to intimidate voters, saying that one of their observers was on location at the time. “The alleged victim of a domestic assault spotted her alleged assaulter in line, called the police and plain clothed policemen came and arrested the guy,” Pope said. “It doesn’t look like a situation where police were staking out a precinct and arresting people.”
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