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.
The Detroit News on Friday published a commentary by Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard News Service about hydrofracking that contained a couple of easily falsified claims. Addressing the issue of contamination by fracking liquids he writes:
The Detroit News editorial team on Sunday called for President Obama to name someone “open-minded” to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, a phrase that is as meaningless as it is cliche`. The editorial never defines how one tells whether a justice is “open-minded” or not, of course, and it offers little [...]
The Detroit Free Press has an article about the arrests of members of the Hutaree Christian militia that contains several inaccuracies. First, the article seems to imply that the Hutaree were motivated by racism by generalizing about all “extremist” groups and the increase in such groups after the election of Barack Obama as president:
Last year State Rep. Dan Scripps (D-Leland) introduced legislation that states that Michigan groundwater should be held in public trust and managed for the good of all. The legislation was spurred by concerns that current law allows for the mining and export of groundwater. Though the recently enacted Great Lakes Compact bans most out of [...]
The Saginaw News and the Bay City Times, which both reduced their print editions to three days per week last year, have announced that they will begin publishing a joint “Great Lakes Bay” Tuesday edition that will focus on regional development. The Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance — which is comprised of the Chambers of [...]
Activists and media experts are strongly criticizing several media outlets for their reporting on the case of Jackie, the perpetrator of a YouTube hoax.
The Detroit News seems to be having a difficult time deciding whether passengers at Metro Airport were confronted by unusually long lines due to heightened security measures in the wake of an attempted terrorist attack on a flight from Amsterdam on Christmas day, or whether they were greeted by surprisingly short lines in the wake [...]
The Detroit News has an article this morning with the headline “Refusal to release imam’s autopsy raises suspicions.” Seems like I’ve heard that somewhere before. Oh, it was here. Two weeks ago. They even quote the same people in the article saying mostly the same things they said to us. Welcome to the party.
The Center for Media and Democracy is criticizing the Lansing State Journal for publishing an interview in which Greenpeace director-turned-nuclear-energy-advocate Patrick Moore was given a platform to present positive statements about nuclear power. The media watchdog said that LSJ should have mentioned that Moore is paid to do public relations for the nuclear industry’s Nuclear [...]
In case you missed Tuesday’s Glenn Beck show on FOX News, here’s an interesting Detroit-as-punching-bag nugget. “Progressives have been fighting for decades to achieve the power to decide for you,” the popular broadcaster began the segment.
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