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.
Bart Stupak, the Democrat who retired from the Dist. 1 Congressional seat he held since 1993 this year after facing bipartisan attacks for his vote on federal health care reform, has signed on with the DC law and lobbying group Venable LLP.
Former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) will not be staying in Michigan now that he has retired from Congress. The former lawmaker is heading east to serve as a resident fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass.
Republican Dan Benishek, a political newcomer with Tea Party connections, has won the race for Congress in the 31 county northern Michigan district that has been represented by Democrat Bart Stupak for 18 years. “Voters are fed up with government but not for the reasons Dan Benishek and his supporters want you to think,” Democrat [...]
Gary McDowell, the Democrat who is running for Bart Stupak’s congressional seat in closely divided Dist. 1, has inched ahead of Republican Dan Benishek, according to a new poll published by the Detroit News. The Mitchell Research and Communications poll of 1,219 likely voters conducted Sunday night found that although Republican candidates for statewide office [...]
Dist. 1 Congressional candidate Gary McDowell (D-Rudyard) has earned the endorsement of two of northern Michigan’s largest newspapers. The Bay City Times compliments Republican nominee Dan Benishek for his “folksy appeal” and for doing his homework on campaign issues but says that McDowell — a former UPS driver, state representative and county commissioner — would [...]
The organization that owns the now-infamous C Street House in Washington, D.C., which includes at least two Michigan legislators — Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Pete Hoekstra — as members, received $50,000 in donations from an Islamic charity that appears on a Senate list of groups that fund terrorism. Those donations were then used to [...]
Republican congressional candidate Dan Benishek, once “all in favor of privatizing” Social Security, now takes a more moderate position on the matter — and is targeted by both sides for the politically convenient change in views.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Federal Bureau of Prisons officials once again toured the Standish maximum security prison, which has been shut down since late last year, to see if it will work as a federal prison. This is the second visit they’ve made and the town is hoping for a positive result that [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee is reserving $22 million worth of ad time leading up to the November elections, most of it in districts currently held by Democrats that may be vulnerable — including two races here in Michigan. Politico reports on how this strategy differs from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
As the state board of canvassers prepare to certify the results of the 1st Congressional District Republican primary today it appears that Crystal Falls surgeon Dan Benishek’s margin of victory over State Sen. Jason Allen (R-Alanson) has expanded from one to 15 votes. The 31 county boards of canvassers in Dist. 1 finalized their vote [...]
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