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.
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed Republican Dan Benishek in his race against Democrat Gary McDowell in the 1st Congressional District of Michigan. She posted the endorsement along with several others on her Facebook page:
Michigan’s gubernatorial and congressional races are getting national attention because of their potential to help shift the balance in the U.S. House of Representatives to the Republicans in November. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post writes that a blowout win in the governor’s race could help swing two key House races:
Gary McDowell, the Democratic candidate seeking to replace Rep. Bart Stupak in Congress from the 1st District of Michigan, has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, a designation usually reserved for Republican candidates.
Glenn Wilson, a conservative candidate mounting a third-party bid for Bart Stupak’s seat in Congress from the 1st District of Michigan, has lost his campaign manager. Rich Carlson resigned from the campaign and is accusing Wilson of violating a promise he made to drop out of the race if the polls showed he had little [...]
Despite recent accidents and warnings from environmental groups and a local lawmaker, the Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment has given the OK for underwater oil pipeline work by Enbridge Energy Partners at the Straits of Mackinac.
State Rep. Gary McDowell, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s First District is asking state and federal regulators to take a close look at underwater oil pipeline work planned by Enbridge at the Mackinac Straits, which falls within his district. Enbridge has requested a state permit to build underwater supports for the 57 year [...]
Nate Silver at the New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog is giving Republican Dan Benishek a 91 percent chance of winning the Dist.1 Congressional seat. Blogging for the Washington Post’s The Fix Chris Cillizzi ranks Michigan’s Dist. 1 as the 33rd most likely to flip party control.
Poll shows Benishek with the lead but all three campaigns are beginning to air television commercials throughout the 1st District and are contrasting themselves with one another.
Republican congressional candidate Dan Benishek, once “all in favor of privatizing” Social Security, now takes a more moderate position on the matter — and is targeted by both sides for the politically convenient change in views.
Politico takes a comprehensive look at the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives and lists all of the districts that are likely in play in November. They divide that list into those seats that are the most at risk of flipping from Democratic to Republican and those seats that could lead the [...]
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