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.
WNDU reports on an incident of racist vandalism in Buchanan, Michigan:
Members of the South County Democratic Club woke up Saturday to find their building vandalized.
The building, located in the 500-block of Red Bud Trail, was vandalized with swastikas and racist comments…
The chair of the South County Democratic Club says the building has been vandalized once before and was painted over, but that this time it was more hateful.
“It’s very derogatory to the fact that this is a country where we do it peacefully, without this kind of hate. And we have our disagreements, but we move forward for the betterment of the country and work on it peacefully and not in a hateful way,” remarked Jess Minks.
Similar incidents are happening all over the country. For all the talk that the election of Barack Obama as president is evidence that America has transcended race (and I think there is some truth to that), it has also lifted the veil to reveal a dark subculture bubbling beneath the surface (to mix a few metaphors). I don’t think it’s a particularly large portion of the country. But if it’s even 5%, that’s more than 15 million people.
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