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.
Election Protection is reporting that wait times have reached five hours at some precincts in Detroit where lines grew to more than 1,000 people at Beth Eden Baptist Church.
They said this was largely due to lack of staffing at the polling place.
This could cause many people to not be able to vote because they simply don’t have the time to wait. A study of the 2004 election in Ohio found that as many as 129,000 voters could not wait to register their vote due to long lines. This may also cause many polling places to have to stay open.
Federal law requires that every person in line to vote when the polls close has to be allowed to vote. That would obviously delay the results from those precincts as well.
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