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.
Erik Prince, the founder of the private — and embattled — private military contractor Blackwater (now Xe) is reportedly engaged with a South African organization to provide security for Somalia’s battered government.
Spencer Ackerman, formerly the foreign policy and military correspondent for our sister site the Washington Independent, reports that Blackwater/Xe, the controversial private military company owned by Michigan native Erik Prince, has received yet another contract to protect American diplomats around the world — but the contract was kept hidden from view through secret deals and [...]
At least a few of the many legal allegations against Blackwater (now Xe), founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, have now been settled. The company has agreed to pay $42 million in fines to the federal government to settle hundreds of instances of violating the law on export of various kinds of weapons from the [...]
It’s like they’re in a strip club, according to Jeff Stein:
Jeremy Scahill, the country’s foremost expert on private military firms, reports in the Nation that he has been told by several sources that Blackwater founder Erik Prince is preparing to move to the United Arab Emirates after selling his company. That country, Scahill notes, has no extradition treaty with the United States.
If you’ve got a few billion lying around and it’s always been your dream to have your own private army, you’re in luck. Blackwater, now known as Xe, is up for sale. But you might have to put up with a little sniping about things like, oh, extra-judicial killings of innocent people by your drunk [...]
Blackwater founder Erik Prince gave his long-awaited speech at the Tulip Time festival on Wednesday, with media present in the room. Kathy Barks Hoffman of the Associated Press was there and she reports that the speech was something straight out of the Tea Party manual.
The Tulip Time festival has reversed an earlier decision and will allow members of the media to attend a speech by Blackwater founder Erik Prince — but no audio or video recording devices will be allowed. Last week the festival announced a no-media rule for the first time in the event’s history, something requested by [...]
That talk by Erik Prince at the Tulip Festival has been declared off limits to the press at his demand, the Holland Sentinel says, provoking a good deal of anger both from media outlets wishing to cover the event and by local officials and residents who say this request is unprecedented in the long history [...]
It’s Tulip Time in Holland, Michigan and Holland native Erik Prince, founder of controversial private military contractor Blackwater (now known as Xe) will be speaking on May 5 at a luncheon held during the festival. A press release for the event indicated that Prince would be offering “an engaging and motivational presentation sharing insights into [...]
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