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.
Iiiiiiiit’s Biden! Barack Obama notified his supporters at about 3 a.m. Saturday that Senate colleague Joe Biden of Delaware was his pick to be vice president. The middle-of-the-night notice came a few hours after the word began to leak out through other channels, which the Obama campaign had managed to keep securely dammed all week.
Tuesday has turned out to be a day of lady love for Barack Obama.
Might there be the beginning of a trend — which started in Detroit – to remove elephants from display in zoos around the world?
On Wednesday, The New York Times told the story of Hiu Lui Ng, a computer engineer and immigrant from Hong Kong living in New York for the past 15 years, detained and denied health care until his death.
This weekend is the Dream Cruise, the annual car event along Woodward Avenue that brings about 1 million people into metro Detroit for one Saturday in August. Since I live a half-block from Woodward in Royal Oak, I watch the excitement and energy build every day. At night, the avenue is thronged with car lovers [...]
Who would have predicted that spiraling oil prices plus cash-strapped organizations would equal a three-day weekend? Tuesday Chrysler announced it has asked the United Auto Workers to agree to four-day work weeks at many of its manufacturing plants in a bid to cut costs, with workers clocking in 10 hours each day. The automaker joins [...]
Presumed Republican nominee John McCain will arrive in Michigan on Wednesday for a fund-raising blitz and a campaign appearance with independent Sen. Joe Lieberman. McCain will hold three fund-raising events Wednesday — two high-end soirees in Birmingham, at the Townsend Hotel and Big Rock Chophouse, and one at the Shenandoah Country Club in West Bloomfield, [...]
The Detroit Zoo has dodged the bullet that seemed to have dead-on aim just two years ago
Just one day after visiting the state, news that Sen. John McCain would return to Michigan next week leaked out. McCain plans to visit Michigan for back-to-back big-ticket fund-raisers on Aug. 13, according to the Detroit Free Press. Both are scheduled to be held in Birmingham, in McCain’s stronghold of Oakland County, at the Big [...]
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