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 Washington Times has a follow up on their earlier article wherein Rep. John Conyers says that he still intends to hold hearings to investigate charges from a former ACORN employee that the organization had engaged in a range of corrupt practices, hearings that some members of his own party are opposed.
Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, says he may hold hearings on accusations made by a former employee of ACORN that the organization had broken the law in a number of ways. The Washington Times reports:
A group of “tax protesters” gathered on the steps of the state Capitol on Friday to proclaim their dislike for President Barack Obama’s stimulus legislation and rail against socialism and community organizers.
In a brief interview with Michigan Messenger at the state Republican Party convention on Friday, Republican state Sen. Michelle McManus, now a candidate for secretary of state in 2010, made her disdain for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now quite clear, going so far as to claim that the organization, better known as ACORN, should not be allowed to operate in the state of Michigan.
The Michigan Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced today that it is recruiting people to participate in a campaign of civil disobedience aimed at keeping foreclosure victims from being evicted from their homes in Flint and Detroit.
Home foreclosure was at the top of the agenda Monday evening at ACORN’s Detroit mayoral candidate forum.
During the last election, we spent a great deal of time investigating and writing on allegations of voter fraud, particularly against ACORN. And what we found, time and time again, was that despite constant cries of voter fraud by the GOP, cases of actual voter fraud were almost nonexistent. A report from a special prosecutor [...]
A bill to allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages for people facing foreclosure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. In introducing the legislation bill sponsor Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit said: Detroit has had more than 100,000 foreclosures over the last three years. And they are continuing at the rate of [...]
The conservative blog RightMichigan has an interview with Michelle McManus, a state senator who plans to run for Secretary of State in 2010, in which she aims the usual outlandish Republican rhetoric at ACORN:
ACORN has released documentation showing how they handled a fraudulent voter registration application that has received much attention in the media.
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