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.
Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama met for their second presidential debate Tuesday night — a town hall format in Nashville moderated by former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. But the town folks were very limited in their involvement, and the two senators took time to take swings at each other throughout [...]
Just to show you how prepared Palin is on foreign policy, the first statement she’s actually made about any foreign policy issues other than platitudes was to support Barack Obama’s (and Bush’s) position on Pakistan and contradict McCain’s:
At a town hall-style rally Wednesday evening in Grand Rapids, Mich., Republican presidential hopeful John McCain had to step in and save his vice presidential pick, Gov. Sarah Palin, from a question about her foreign policy experience. Palin first made an attempt to answer the question but failed because she couldn’t give any specifics about [...]
We note the loss of four American soldiers this weekend to a roadside bombing in Baghdad; we have now lost 4,000 soldiers to the Iraq War. We offer this video of Senator Chuck Hagel interviewed by George Stephanopolous from ABC’s This Week program, broadcast yesterday, without further comment.
Is divestment a strategy to combat genocide in far away places or a tool to fight terrorism? Is it a matter of homeland security or an assertion of social conscience in a global community? Michigan’s House and Senate are working on divestment legislation, but differences in approach and philosophy have created conflicting results that need [...]
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