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.
Congressional Quarterly’s CQ Politics site has an article analyzing all of the races for the U.S. House of Representatives in every district in every state. The point to three races in Michigan that should be major battleground districts in 2010, races that both parties have already targeted as either possible to win or vital to [...]
Paul Welday, the former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, is looking to avenge the 2008 defeat of his old boss at the hands of Democrat Gary Peters, who has been outpacing all his current Michigan colleagues in the House in fundraising for the critical 2010 elections.
CQ Politics has a major report on more than 100 members of the House of Representatives from both parties who helped secure earmarks for clients of The PMA Group, a lobbying firm with close ties to Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.). The lobbying firm is currently under investigation for illegal campaign contributions. The report looks at [...]
Bloomfield Township Democrat and former Michigan Lottery commissioner and Michigan Sen. Gary Peters unseated Republican incumbent Joe Knollenberg, 51-43, last night to become the new congressman for the 9th Congressional District, representing Oakland County.
Mainstream media outlets reported that vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is unhappy with her Republican running mate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, saying she doesn’t want to give up on Michigan.
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.
Nobody can take the gloves off, throw mud and make it land so hard it sticks, like conservatives can. There was the race-baiting Willie Horton ad in 1988 that hobbled Michael Dukakis so badly that George Herbert Walker Bush practically jogged backward in the sprint to the White House, taunting the Massachusetts governor as he [...]
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