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.
John McCain explains why he’s so up in arms over the Russian attack on Georgia: In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations. And not a hint of irony there. The mind truly boggles.
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 [...]
Republican presidential candidate insists that five years after invasion, “surge” has brought peace MUSKEGON, Mich. — Here’s some late-breaking video of a press conference Sen. John McCain gave under a tree today in Grand Haven, Mich., on the bank of the Grand River. McCain is in the area to attend a fund-raiser at the private [...]
Activists put GOP on defensive with jujitsu move that uses “family values” to floor McCain on Iraq issue MoveOn.org debuted a political television ad Wednesday it says is testing better with preview audiences than any ad the progressive nonprofit has ever made. The ad uses a young mother and her cooing baby to attack John [...]
While the U.S. fails to meet resettlement goals set for Iraqi refugees, Canada is doubling its effort. Last month, on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley announced that Canada will more than double its annual quota for Iraqi refugees from 900 to 2,000. Between [...]
View Larger Map Yesterday we looked at Michigan’s unrealized alternatives — the ‘opportunity costs’ of the Iraq War. Today we look at the cost to our state, in the simplest terms: the loss of our Michiganders who served in Iraq. What a tremendous and priceless sacrifice, as you can see illustrated in this map, each [...]
What is the true cost of the war in Iraq? What price the 165-plus Michigan soldiers who gave their lives, and the thousands more who came home injured? How do their families translate blood and suffering into dollars and cents? They can’t, of course. But we can put a price tag on what else the [...]
EAST LANSING — About one hundred students and community members gathered in the median of Grand River Ave. and Abbott in downtown East Lansing during rush hour traffic to bring attention to the 4,000 American soldiers who have died since the beginning of the war in 2003. The protesters were from the Greater Lansing Network [...]
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.
Without any provocation, Blackwater security guards dropped CS gas — similar to tear gas — on a Baghdad checkpoint to enter the Green Zone, temporarily blinding pedestrians, drivers and U.S. soldiers in May 2005, The New York Times reports. Blackwater, a private military firm founded by Michigan native Erik Prince, has been the subject of [...]
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