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.
Michigan State University Spartans surprised top-seeded University of Louisville Cardinals today, winning the Midwest Regional Finals by a score of 64-52 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. MSU meets University of Connecticut in the Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit this coming weekend; details about the venue and tickets are available at this [...]
Michigan State University won the NCAA Regional Semifinals last night, outscoring Kansas State 67-62. Kansas had been favored by a few points going into the game, played in Indianapolis at the Lucas Oil Stadium. But it’s a big week here, though, not only because one of the state’s universities is now in the Elite Eight. [...]
It’s tough enough for the Big Three to attempt a recovery under today’s challenging economic conditions, let alone respond to new competitive threats nipping at their heels like electric auto maker Tesla. Tesla kicked it up a notch yesterday with the debut of its sleek Model S, an all-electric four-door sedan; here’s the video:
Once again, the comedic writings of the folks at The Onion appear painfully prescient. An article published by The Onion nearly three years ago about Detroit is making the rounds via Twitter; here’s an excerpt: DETROIT—Detroit, a former industrial metropolis in southeastern Michigan with a population of just under 1 million, was sold at auction [...]
As a business person, this morning’s announcement about The Ann Arbor News seemed odd. Out of Booth Newspaper’s seven Michigan local news publications, why just Ann Arbor moving to an online-only format? Well wonder no more. Booth has just announced that their three eastern Michigan papers — The Bay City Times, The Saginaw News and [...]
One wonders how Apple tripped upon this scheme: a Kalamazoo-area iPod repairman figured out how to get iPod manufacturer Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) to repair their Shuffle model devices for free under valid warranties. Were there just too many broken Shuffles being shipped back to Apple for warranty repairs from the Kalamazoo/Portage area?
83-year-old former state Rep. Aldo Vagnozzi died at home Sunday evening, losing his battle to pancreatic cancer. Vagnozzi is remembered warmly as a jovial and kindly man; he was active in politics for most of the last 40 years, beginning with service on Farmington’s school board in 1969. Term-limited Vagnozzi had been the target of [...]
We don’t typically cover sports here at Michigan Messenger, but we’d be remiss not to note that two of Michigan’s state universities were in the second round of the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament this weekend. The University of Michigan’s Wolverines lost to Oklahoma State, 73-63 while Michigan State University’s Spartans won over University [...]
Members of Congress and President Barack Obama are clearly as angry as their constituents over the millions of dollars in bonuses awarded to American International Group’s financial products employees, likely paid by injections of taxpayers’ monies since the U.S. government owns a substantive portion of the insurance corporation.
[Ed. note: video now embedded below, via The Daily Show.] You’ve got to admire the kind of je ne sais quoi it takes to go up against Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show after being bloodied for a week in a cable network skirmish. But you’ve also got to wonder at the lack [...]
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