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.
A few weeks ago during a speaking engagement in Ann Arbor, respected auto industry analyst David Cole noted that if the price of gas were to fall dramatically, all the progress recently made in the area of alternative fuel vehicles would be for naught. His experience, he made clear, had shown him that not even [...]
The folks at Canada’s Globe and Mail don’t think it’s any coincidence that Michigan’s Gov. Jennifer Granholm was positioned just over President-elect Obama’s shoulder during his first press conference. They think it was a deliberate sign that cash is on the way. Here’s a clip:
I didn’t realize it until looking through this great New York Times slide show, but not one single county in Michigan voted more Republican in this election than in 2004.
Former Vice President Al Gore wants President-elect Barack Obama to reaffirm his pledge to get the United States off of carbon in 10 years. After making the case as to why it’s imperative, Gore lays out the following five-step plan in Sunday’s New York Times:
If you saw Obama’s first press conference Friday afternoon, you likely noticed a familiar face there behind him: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, alongside the other members of President-elect Obama’s transition team.
Since 1948, the small town of Dixville Notch, NH has taken great pride at being the first town in the nation to vote. Everyone eligible to vote in the town of 115 heads to the polls at midnight, the votes are counted, and the press is informed of the results.
I thought that when the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan and we lost our “swing state” designation we would stop being relevant, at least through the election. Thanks to the efforts of one woman, however, Michigan is back in the spotlight.
I’d heard it said that in Michigan that you can’t approach a polling place if you’re wearing any kind of recognizable campaign paraphernalia. It had the ring of urban myth, but it is not one. The law was challenged in federal court on grounds of free speech, but upheld by a federal judge this week.
With more evidence coming in to support the conclusion that the financial institutions receiving billions of dollars from the federal government have no intention of using said billions to extend credit to their customers, a growing chorus of Americans is beginning to question the wisdom of the $700 billion deal. The following clip comes from [...]
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