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 — The city attorney’s office is coming under scrutiny once again after releasing a police report with private medical information visible.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open up a door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities. The agreement may also challenge federal, state and local regulations of those facilities as barriers to international trade. Details of the negotiations came to light after a Michigan Messenger inquiry and federal lawsuit seeking disclosure of the agreement.
Bloomberg News has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the Bush administration’s refusal to reveal the nature of $2 trillion in loans made to businesses and the collateral used to secure those loans.
Michigan Messenger reporter Ed Brayton has filed suit in the federal district court of Washington, D.C., to force the Bush administration to reveal how much money negotiated settlements with a trade dispute will cost the country. Brayton filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), [...]
If there is indeed a Detroit Free Press cover-up (as hizzoner claims) in Detroit’s everlasting text message scandal, it is one Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won’t enjoy hearing about. He’ll probably scream it’s illegal. Since when, as the mayor claims, is filing a request for government information illegal, anyway? Here’s what I mean by “cover-up”: It’s [...]
[COMMENTARY] We are all taught that American government is supposed to be by and of the people. In short, government is supposed to be responsive to the people. But how can people demand accountability from government when the tools created to spread sunshine on the operations of those institutions, the people hired to run them [...]
Michigan Messenger’s request for information leads to questions in Congress Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is urging his colleagues to join him in demanding that The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) make available the details of an agreement negotiated with the European Union, Canada and Japan to settle a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute [...]
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