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– Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she is supporting her number two man, Lt. Gov. John Cherry, to replace her next year. “I am supporting Lt. Gov. Cherry,” Granholm said when asked about the announcement Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero was considering getting into the race for Gov. She said Bernero’s entry into the race was “good [...]
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 [...]
As a nod to union workers, Sen. Barack Obama has chosen a Teamsters union official from Taylor, Michigan, to speak at the National Democratic Convention the night Obama accepts the party’s nomination for president.
A Wayne County Circuit Court judge ruled that embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick can attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver despite having already spent time in jail for violating the travel restrictions placed on him by the court.
Remember that all-important Democratic Rules and Nominations committee meeting at the end of May that finally, definitively punished Florida and Michigan for violating the primary calendar? Well, forget it. Now that it doesn’t matter to the nomination math, Barack Obama is recommending that the two states’ delegations be seated at full strength.
Michigan Democrats don’t begrudge Sen. Hillary Clinton for staying in the race until the very end, but now it’s time to unite behind presumptive party nominee Sen. Barack Obama, party leaders said Wednesday. Their comments came shortly after Obama secured the nomination Tuesday night, capping a 16-month-long primary season, and days after the Democratic National [...]
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