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.
LANSING — Mayor Virgil Bernero was on CNN Wednesday morning responding to statements from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the recession that has crippled our economy, tossed millions of Americans out of jobs and made the housing crisis worse, is over. Bernero told CNN’s John Roberts that while Bernanke might being seeing hopeful signs [...]
The massive layoffs in the mainstream media continue to pile up. The Columbia Journalism Review reports that CNN is doing away with their entire science and technology reporting group:
CNN aired an interview with Michigan Messenger reporter Eartha Melzer this morning as part of its reporting on voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
As I said last week, there is only one possible measure of who “wins” these “debates,” and that is by how they changed public perceptions and swung voters to their side. And like it or not, most voters do not make that decision based on analysis of substantive arguments but on subjective perceptions.
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.
CNN gets ambitious with “Black in America” special, while MSNBC takes a peek at “Multicultural in America”
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