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.
Is former Congressman Joe Schwarz flirting with the idea of an independent run for the governor’s office? Schwarz, a moderate Republican who was ousted in 2006 from the 7th Congressional District seat by Tim Walberg, backed by cash from the Club for Growth. Walberg nearly lost the general election to Democrat Sharon Reiner, who raised [...]
State Rep. Paul Scott, (R-Grand Blanc), caused a shock wave when he announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Secretary of State five days ago, by declaring that one of his top priorities would be to “ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license.”
Muskegon Township Democratic State. Rep. Doug Bennett has been missing from floor votes since mid-August, and on Sept. 2 his staff issued a release saying the 64-year-old suffered a hemorrhage in his brain and is recovering in an undisclosed hospital. The Muskegon Chronicle reports that questions remain about when Bennett suffered the injuries, or how [...]
LANSING — Concerned with the party’s electoral fortunes in 2010, many Michigan Democrats were caught off guard on Friday when State Rep. Pam Byrnes announced she would introduce legislation aimed at reversing the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage OK’d by voters in 2004.
Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel is unlikely to turn his exploratory committee into an election committee in a bid to succeed Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the Detroit Free Press reports. Hackel, a Democrat, formed an exploratory committee at the end of last year– which is one of the first steps towards running for large office like [...]
In what appears to be an effort to gain back minority voters, the Republican National Committee elected Michael Steele as the first African American to chair their party. Steele sounded a lot like President Obama In his acceptance speech to RNC Friday evening. But since Obama already owns the word “change,” Steele had to play [...]
The McCain campaign and many prominent conservatives are working overtime on painting Barack Obama as a socialist. But virtually everyone in modern political life, Democrats and Republicans alike, supports redistribution of income. And that includes John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Nate Silver, the Michigan native who has effectively brought serious analysis of polling into the media in the current campaign, has an interesting article at Newsweek debunking the so-called Bradley effect.
The Obama campaign has long maintained that their voter registration and get out the vote programs were going to result in record turnout by Democrats in this campaign. If the results of the first few days in the states that allow early voting are any indication, they’re right. The New York Times reports on the [...]
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