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.
Fresh on the heels of the Calhoun County oil spill that spewed a million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River and another oil spill in Illinois on the same pipeline, the Coast Guard reports that it is responding to an oil leak in Cheboygan State Park and Duncan Bay on Lake Huron.
In a press briefing Wednesday night, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced that oil from the Enbridge pipeline spill has spread past Morrow Lake and its dam. The lake was identified by officials as a location they expected to stop the oil spill’s progress down the Kalamazoo River. The oil is now entering a region of the [...]
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan to a Christian school free of charge after constitutional law scholars pointed out that the land transfer would violate the First Amendment separation between church and state. After Michigan Messenger reported on this issue in [...]
Newly obtained documents show that the religious school which U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak wants to give a piece of federal property to, already defaulted on the original agreement that required them to purchase land of equal value to swap with the Coast Guard for the Cheboygan property the Cornerstone Christian School was allowed to build their school on.
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