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.
In a move that has been coming for several months, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — ACORN — is disbanding and will no longer exist. The decision comes after two years of controversy and consequently falling revenues, the Detroit News reports:
While the state of Michigan has had virtually no actual voter fraud in its entire history, the Republican candidates for Secretary of State who spoke at a recent luncheon event made voter fraud one of the primary issues on their agenda.
We’d already reported that ACORN had closed all of its offices in the state of Michigan. The Metro Times confirms that the organization that found itself under attack, primarily by conservative politicians and interest groups over its voter registration program, has no operations at all in the state of Michigan.
Sen. Michelle McManus, who is a GOP candidate for Secretary of State, put out a “special alert” Wednesday afternoon declaring she was “taking on ACORN.” In the e-mail alert, McManus argues that her Senate Campaign and Election Oversight Committee will take up her legislation to “to clamp down on voter fraud by groups like ACORN. [...]
WASHINGTON — This rundown of why a vote on unemployment insurance benefits was delayed by five weeks seems like a nadir in the War on ACORN. According to Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post, the GOP objected to an early vote because they “were trying to introduce unrelated amendments attacking ACORN and the financial-industry bailout, [...]
LANSING — Now that the Home Foreclosure Prevention Act has Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s signature, foreclosure industry insiders and activists are expressing new concerns about one particular provision in the legislation, which goes into effect in July, that could allow scam artists and others to target struggling homeowners.
LANSING — With the state legislature and Gov. Jennifer Granholm celebrating the passage of the Home Foreclosure Prevention Act, the crisis facing homeowners struggling to stay in their homes is far from over. And while sheriff-sale announcements and bank property for sale signs are obvious indicators of homeowners in trouble, it is far more difficult to spot those who were turned onto bad mortgages or manipulated by tactics that some call fraudulent, a festering problem across Michigan that’s been hitting one family in the state capital particularly hard.
WASHINGTON — The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, as any time since the 2008 election. It began with 26 counts of extortion and voter registration fraud filed against the group and some of its members in Clark County, Nevada. It continued with the indictments of seven ACORN workers in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Democrats staged a floor fight over a Republican amendment to block any organization that had indicted members from getting taxpayer dollars. ACORN’s national spokesman was kicked off of Glenn Beck’s Fox News set.
Just prior to last fall’s election we reported on a lawsuit filed in Ohio by the Buckeye Institute against ACORN. Gerry Hebert, one of the leading election law experts in the country, predicted that the lawsuit would end up being dismissed and a magistrate judge has recommended to the federal court precisely that:
LANSING — State lawmakers are frustrated with how one mortgage company is treating a Lansing couple that was close to settling back payments but now face getting kicked out of their home.
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