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.
Click to enlarge the image. (photo: JEFF SCHRIER/The Saginaw News) A small band of protesters and Barack Obama supporters holds signs outside Dow Corning’s Solar Solutions Application Center in Freeland while Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. visited the facility.) I think we found the rationale for Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s [...]
At a town hall-style rally Wednesday evening in Grand Rapids, Mich., Republican presidential hopeful John McCain had to step in and save his vice presidential pick, Gov. Sarah Palin, from a question about her foreign policy experience. Palin first made an attempt to answer the question but failed because she couldn’t give any specifics about [...]
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his VP pick, Gov. Sarah Palin, rode the Straight Talk Express into the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights Michigan on Friday evening to a crowd of more than 7,000 people.
Collection of photos and notes from yesterday’s Obama campaign event in Battle Creek
Thank goodness Senator Lindsey Graham isn’t one of our Michigan senators. It’s as if the man lives on a different planet and only popped in for a quick visit when he said at a McCain campaign event here in Michigan,
Barack Obama made headlines across the country mere blocks from Michigan’s capitol building today when he announced plans that would end our nation’s reliance on foreign oil in ten years. Falling short of Al Gore’s recent proposal to convert our nation’s electrical grid to 100 percent renewable energy (wind and solar) in ten years, the [...]
LANSING, Mich — On the campaign trail there are announcements and then there are announcements. Obama chose to unveil the details of his energy plan here–the center of 20th-century American industrial greatness and 21st-century economic hardship — saying: “If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the [...]
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