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.
Michigan State Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) tells Michigan Messenger he does not “favor ending the Michigan Film Credit.”
Adrian Hill, a sex offender convicted of soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of failure to register with the state. The charge is a misdemeanor. Hill, police say, failed to register as a sex offender from January 2007 until his early April arrest. He is now properly registered [...]
The race to fill the seat left open in December when Rep. Mike Simpson, (D-Jackson), is getting heated. Simpson, who was suffering from a rare blood disorder, died of a heart attack, leaving his seat which represents parts of Eaton, Jackson and Lenawee counties, open. Gov. Jennifer Granholm could have called an early special election [...]
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be traveling to Charlotte in Eaton County next week as part of an Obama administration tour of rural areas to showcase what’s been done with federal stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to benefit local communities through agricultural development. U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, who represents Eaton [...]
In Oakland county (MI-09) the latest poll shows incumbent Republican Joe Knollenberg leading Democrat Gary Peters 43 percent to 36 percent, but polling data indicates that lead could disappear as Peters’ name recognition grows through campaigning.
Republican Mike Raines and his wife Laurie are under investigation by the Michigan State Police for allegedly stealing the campaign signs of Raines’ primary opponent Tom Reich. In addition to the MSP investigation, by-the-book, tough-as-nails Eaton county prosecutor Jeff Sauter said he would ask Attorney General Mike Cox to appoint a special prosecutor to review [...]
For the first time in two years, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm is calling out the National Guard to help with cleanup and other actions in the wake of recent storms. Granholm issued an executive order Monday activating the Michigan National Guard to assist jurisdictions operating under a state of emergency because of storms that swept [...]
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