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.
In an editorial following Tuesday night’s GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press has called on the candidates to show how a GOP governor will bring a new era of bipartisanship to Lansing. And that, the Free Press says, will be difficult with the ‘unrealistic schemes’ being floated by the candidates.
The television commercials in the races for the GOP and Democratic nominations for governor are heating up. On the Democratic side, House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) has had two television commercials hit the airwaves, while Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has had none. An article in the Detroit News says Bernero is promising his message [...]
Pete Hoekstra is coming under fire because a Republican caucus he belongs to in Congress has condemned the White House-negotiated establishment of a $20 billion fund to support those harmed by the Gulf oil disaster as a “Chicago-style political shakedown.”
The Detroit Free Press examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children. The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday sent a tersely worded letter to Republican Attorney General Mike Cox demanding that he intervene in a federal lawsuit over recently enacted health care reform legislation in favor of the new law. Cox signed onto a lawsuit opposing the legislation on state’s rights issues on Tuesday. But Granholm says he [...]
If you went to any rally featuring candidate Barack Obama, you know the event started with a campaign staffer standing on stage and directing people to take out their cell phones and text a message to a number in order to get updates by text. That has become pretty standard operation now for political campaigns, [...]
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