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.
Cathy Church, the independent candidate for prosecutor in Marquette has asked for recount of her race. Though the recount is not expected to reverse election results — Church lost to the incumbent Democratic candidate by a 6 percent margin — she says it will be a check on the county’s Diebold brand electronic voting machines which have never been audited.
Church told the Marquette Mining Journal that supporters of her campaign identified an unusual pattern of undervotes — ballots that have no votes recorded for some races. This, she said, coupled with reports that Diebold machines have had problems related to undervotes elsewhere, moved her to request the recount which will cost her $400.
“I kind of look at it as a win-win situation … ” she told the Mining Journal, “either we’re going to find out that we have a flawless system, and in that case we win, or we’re going to find out that we have a system that is going to get repaired and in that case, we win.”
[Ed. note: you can find more of Michigan Messenger's coverage of voting machine problems at this link.]
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