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.
A report from the State Department’s Inspector General suggests that Blackwater, the private military contractor founded by Michigan’s Erik Prince, may lose its license to operate in Iraq, forcing the State Department to change its plans for protecting diplomats in that country:
Much has been written about the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiated between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. ABC News notes that the agreement would finally place American private military contractors like Blackwater under the jurisdiction of Iraqi courts:
Thanks to Zachary at TPMmuckraker for pointing out this McClatchy report about State Department plans to fine the private military contractor Blackwater, founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, for illegally importing hundreds of automatic weapons to Iraq.
A soldier from Battle Creek was killed on duty in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.
In Oakland county (MI-09) the latest poll shows incumbent Republican Joe Knollenberg leading Democrat Gary Peters 43 percent to 36 percent, but polling data indicates that lead could disappear as Peters’ name recognition grows through campaigning.
Congress holds hearings on controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy The gay blog and media outlets are abuzz with Wednesday’s hearings about repealing the ban on gays in the military. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) even went so far as to liveblog from the event. The interesting thing about all this is, while there were [...]
DETROIT — With Sen. Barack Obama set to embark on a much-anticipated trip to Europe and the Middle East, Sen. John McCain today indicated he may know a bit more than the general public about Obama’s trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. At a fund-raiser at the Detroit Athletic Club, McCain casually dropped this little tidbit [...]
Don Bortz of Waterford served a year in Iraq as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. As someone who follows events in Iraq and keeps track of former comrades-in-arms, the war is never far from his mind. But this month, as the war entered its fifth year and the 4,000th American soldier was killed [...]
GENOA TOWNSHIP — Arizona Sen. John McCain and the Straight Talk Express made a stop in Livingston County’s Genoa Township Sunday for a town hall meeting where he addressed a standing-room-only crowd on everything from Iraq to the Great Lakes Compact. The Republican presidential candidate received a warm welcome from the large crowd that jammed [...]
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