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.
Federal agents are trying to figure out who is responsible for leaving a device that damaged a women’s clinic that provides abortions in Detroit.
State Senator David Robertson (R-Grand Blanc Twp.) has introduced a bill that would require doctors to offer keepsake ultrasound photos to women who are seeking abortions.
Four Michigan Congressmen have signed a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vince Gray demanding that he fall in line with federal restrictions on spending federal money for abortions.
While faith-based “crisis pregnancy centers,” or CPCs, continue to receive state and federal taxpayer dollars through the state’s Alternatives to Abortion Services Program, a Texas Independent investigation of an Austin CPC supports critics’ assertions that the nonprofits routinely blur the line between counseling and religious proselytizing. Violations by Texas CPCs are well-documented in reports to [...]
Planned Parenthood and the issue of abortion have been the target of Republicans around the country as they’ve taken control of legislatures in the past two months, but now the issue is hitting home for the city of Auburn Hills.
Michigan Democrats are raising questions about GOP candidate Rick Snyder’s history at Gateway. This time the questions are not about sending jobs to China, rather they are about claims of discrimination against women at Gateway while he was CEO, reports the Associate Press.
Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Flint) won’t be getting the backing of Michigan Right to Life in this fall’s election. That endorsement, for the first time in many years, went to his Republican opponent John Kupiec, reports the Saginaw News.
Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) has once again tapped his right wing ties for endorsements. Over the weekend, Hoekstra stumped in Lenawee county in southern Michigan with Iowa Congressman Steve King in tow, reports the Adrian Daily Telegram. King is no stranger to outrageous comments and controversy.
In a Tuesday editorial in the Grand Rapids Press, self-proclaimed “nerd” candidate in the GOP gubernatorial primary Rick Snyder levels his sites on the issue of abortion.
The Michigan Republican Committee has launched a website and commercial targeting Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) for his last minute switch to supporting health care reform. Echoing earlier attacks on Stupak, the website and commercial allege Stupak sold-out the unborn for $726,409 in airport funding in his district.
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