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.
In a Monday editorial, “Questions Must Be Answered,” the Petoskey News-Review called on elected officials to look into allegations raised by Michigan Messenger reporting on false claims made by Barrett Moore, CEO of Sovereign Deed.
In a series of articles beginning in October, Michigan Messenger reported that Sovereign Deed sought public support for a base to house the rich at Pellston’s airport and that Moore has systematically misrepresented his background, lying about his military service and business history.
Moore has called the Michigan Messenger stories “unscrupulous” and threatened a lawsuit, but he has not provided any information to show the reporting was inaccurate.
The editorial writer at the Petoskey News-Review, the most prominent paper in Emmet County, where Sovereign Deed sought to locate, told Moore “to put up or shut up” and chastised elected officials for failing to research Moore’s claims before approving his plans.
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