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 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.
It didn’t take long for the uncertainty of who was running for the Democratic nomination for governor to dissolve into dirty tricks. At least three apparently illegal robocalls were made to voters in the state, two attacking Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s relationship with labor, and one praising House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) as a leader on education.
The onslaught of radio, internet and billboard attacks bubbling up in the Republican primary for the nomination for governor is continuing to draw criticism from the candidates themselves. As I reported this morning, the campaign of Ann Arbor business Rick Snyder sent a scathing letter to Mike Cox, the sitting attorney general, and another candidate, [...]
John Weaver, a political consultant for Rick Snyder’s bid for the Republican nomination for governor, is no stranger to political hack attacks. He helmed the McCain 2000 campaign during the South Carolina primary in which Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was savaged with push polls and whisper campaigns. McCain lost that primary, and George W. Bush [...]
Marc Armbinder reports on a study that shows that the McCain campaign is now airing nothing but attack ads on Obama:
Some Dems in Denver are worried that the choice of venue for Barack Obama’s historic nomination acceptance speech plays into the hand of recent Republican attack ads.
The alert went out earlier this week that the Obama attack ads were on the way to Michigan, well, they’re here, and they’re ugly.
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