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.
Police in Grand Traverse County were called to intervene at two polling places where activists with Grand Traverse Area Right to Life were accused of harassing voters on election day. The Traverse City Record Eagle reports that Garfield Township Clerk Kay Schumacher called the police Tuesday morning after voters complained that they were followed and [...]
Election Protection is reporting that wait times have reached five hours at some precincts in Detroit where lines grew to more than 1,000 people at Beth Eden Baptist Church. They said this was largely due to lack of staffing at the polling place.
2:04 p.m. — Macomb County. Michigan Messenger broke the news in early September that the Macomb County GOP had plans to challenge voters here based on foreclosure rolls. A lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee that sought to deny the Republican Party from using this tactic as a legal basis for challenging voters’ residency was [...]
If you’re like a lot of voters out there, you’re concerned that you might not be allowed to vote due to some red tape or some partisan challenge at the polls, or that your cast vote might not count due to some dirty tricks by partisan hackers or electronic vote tabulator error.
A record 7.47 million Michiganians are registered to vote in the Nov. 4 general election, the Detroit News reported today, with sharp increases in Democratic stronghold Wayne County and in college towns where the Obama campaign has been especially active.
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