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.
Eight years ago, just as Bush was coming into office, Budweiser launched a wildly popular series of television ads featuring a bunch of guys in the habit of calling one another up and saying, “Wassup?” in funny voices. This team of beer-drinking slacker icons rode the cultural zeitgeist for several years, but, like Spuds MacKenzie [...]
Having suffered greatly at the hands of critics who found his most notable invention to date, the Segway Personal Transporter, to be both over-hyped and … well … ridiculous, you would think that American inventor Dean Kamen would know better than to, once again, build an invention up beyond any hope of delivery. But here he [...]
In the recent bailout of U.S. financial institutions, JP Morgan Chase was given $25 billion by us, the American tax-payers. The hope, at least as it was expressed to us by our legislators, was that with this money the company would begin making loans, returning things to normal. According to New York Times reporter Joe [...]
According to CBS News, the United States military launched an attack inside Syria on Sunday, killing eight:
It seems to me that Chris Matthews, in this clip from the MSNBC television show Hardball, is asking a legitimate question.
Early voting began Oct. 6 in Indiana for voters with disabilities, voters who are 65 years old or older, and voters who cannot make it to the polls due to work, injury or religious discipline. Early voting centers have been particularly busy in the Democratic stronghold of Lake County. Republicans, citing the potential for voter fraud, failed [...]
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, voting-rights activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came out in the pages of Rolling Stone and said unequivocally that the election had been stolen. “Republicans,” Kennedy said, “prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John [...]
Andrew Sullivan, senior editor of “The Atlantic,” during his October 19 appearance on The Chris Matthews Show, had the following to say about the voter-registration group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the McCain campaign’s attacks on it:
Leaders in automotive research, public policy, venture capital and business will discuss plug-in electric vehicles and what they might mean for the future of Michigan.
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