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.
Betsie Gallardo, the HIV-positive woman convicted of spitting at a Florida police officer who was at the center of a controversy recently over her treatment by a Florida prison, has passed away.
In the last day many outlets have covered the plan, touted by Illinois governor Pat Quinn, to reduce the number of Asian carp in area water bodies by promoting the harvesting and export of the fish as food for the Chinese market. Missing from the discussion, it seems, is acknowledgment that carp are bottom-feeding fish [...]
Michigan entrepreneur Todd Sluis has given a new meaning to having kids mow the lawn. Sluis makes a living by renting out his goats at $10 an animal to clear brush on hard to reach areas and hillsides. In an article on nwitimes.com, Sluis’ work is featured as a way to clear unwanted vegetation without [...]
ACORN has released documentation showing how they handled a fraudulent voter registration application that has received much attention in the media.
Early voting began Oct. 6 in Indiana for voters with disabilities, voters who are 65 years old or older, and voters who cannot make it to the polls due to work, injury or religious discipline. Early voting centers have been particularly busy in the Democratic stronghold of Lake County. Republicans, citing the potential for voter fraud, failed [...]
GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
Despite speculation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will name Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as his vice presidential nominee on Wednesday, when Michigan Messenger asked a highly placed source in the Obama campaign about the possibility, the source was visibly surprised about the information. “I don’t know anything about that,” the source said. “I have not [...]
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