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.
Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will kick off the national book tour for her new book “Going Rogue” in Grand Rapids. The former Alaska Gov will appear in Grand Rapids two days after a sit down with Oprah Winfrey in Chicago. Palin’s appearance is scheduled for Nov. 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the [...]
With the withdrawal of moderate Republican state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava from the race to fill the 23rd Congressional district seat New York, there seems to be some familiar echoes from Michigan’s not too distant past. Remember Dr. Joe Schwarz? He was the Congressman for the 7th Congressional District, a district drawn by the GOP in [...]
The campaign of former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz and a Republican political action group have agreed to pay $5,000 in fines related to an FEC complaint that the two improperly coordinated during the heated 2006 Republican primary in the 7th Congressional District against Tim Walberg.
The race for the 7th Congressional District is stirring up bad blood, as the national anti-tax group Club for Growth emerges front-and-center in a campaign controversy.
Republican rep voted against U.S. House bill to slow housing crisis As the U.S. House was voting to ease the housing market crisis on Wednesday, Republican Rep. Tim Walberg was on the floor casting a dissenting vote. Walberg claimed he voted against the bill because it rewarded risky investments. But there could be another reason. [...]
If we needed any proof here in Michigan that Sen. John McCain‘s campaign for the Republican nomination for president has picked up some steam and is alive and well, we only needed to see the press release put out by the conservative Club for Growth. The release came in response to a Dec. 21 Detroit [...]
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