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.
• From conservative Grosse Pointe Woods today, one Republican voter said she wasn’t pleased with her choices, but voted McCain because “It was the better of two evils.”
• The Chicago Tribune gives a run-down on the highlights of the presidential campaigning in Michigan (sans the robocalls and nasty campaign ads) and notes that a Republican presidential candidate has not won Michigan since 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran for office.
• The Detroit News has narrowed the election down to seven key factors that will shape Michigan’s future. They’re predicting that our political future could be very different from what we’ve seen in recent years.
• Newsweek has a report titled “Death of a Battleground: How McCain let Michigan go blue.” I thought we were ‘blue,’ but that aside, the article notes a key moment in McCain’s Michigan campaigning that possibly dealt him the fatal blow in the state:
Then Wall Street crashed, taking McCain’s campaign in Michigan down with it. His move to suspend his campaign and fly to Washington played even worse in a state with the nation’s highest unemployment rate and a collapsing auto industry. “When the Wall Street bubble burst, McCain became unhinged,” says Ballenger. And once on the topic of the economy, McCain made gaffes, like trying to explain to an auto-factory crowd why he supported free trade. That’s a hard sell to union members who blame free-trade agreements like NAFTA for the loss of their jobs. Soon McCain started slipping in the polls, and before long he was free-falling, dropping 13 points in Michigan by the end of September.
• MLive.com touts the lovely weather here this week as being a help to drive campaign workers to keep plugging away, going door-to-door pleading their case before Election Day. Of note is the continued fighting spirit of the Republican faithful:
“Voting matters. … It’s closer than the press is pitching,” state GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis told the party faithful on his blog, bragging that Republicans had made over 110,000 voter contacts on Saturday and were continuing to work the phones and knock on doors in the closing hours of the campaign.
• Detroit Channel 4 News will have election results for Oakland County and larger state-wide Michigan races and initiatives as they become available. Just check in here later on in the evening.
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