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.
Today is the 217th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Unlike most holidays, this one actually celebrates something that really matters.
Not fit for wrapping fish, says this reader
Flint police can arrest people who “sag” or wear their pants below the hips.
Larry King was a flamboyant 15-year-old murdered in February in what some have labeled a gay-bias crime. Newsweek’s coverage of the murder shows exactly why anti-bias laws have to be expanded in Michigan — because mainstream media is still blaming victims [COMMENTARY] Sitting on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday morning waiting for a press [...]
[COMMENTARY] News late last month that the Detroit Free Press will print its last editions of the Community Free Press on Aug. 1 stunned the reporters, editors, photographers and myriad freelancers who’ve diligently worked to make those mini-papers popular with readers. In Detroit and 10 suburban areas where they circulate, the CFPs have managed to [...]
[COMMENTARY] I was still trying to digest Eric Alterman’s long, thoughtful article in the March 31, 2008, New Yorker about the demise of American newspapers when I noticed the March 29, 2008, Detroit Free Press front page story from Mackinac Island. Mackinac Island in March? Who’d want to be there when there’s snow on the [...]
[COMMENTARY] James Dobson, Ph.D. Focus on the Family Colorado Springs, CO 80995 June 25, 2008 Dear Jimmy, How ya doin’ over there in Colorado? I hear spring is lovely in the mountains, and I remember, although vaguely, a time when I was 14 visiting the Air Force Academy. Lovely place. I even bought a ring [...]
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