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.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, made a personal phone call to each of the two Muslim women who said they were denied seating behind him at this week’s rally in Detroit because they wore Islamic head scarves known as hijabs. Obama called Shimaa Abdelfadeel and Hebba Aref Thursday to personally apologize [...]
A young Muslim woman said Wednesday that she was asked not to sit in view of television cameras by an Obama campaign volunteer at Monday’s rally because she was wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf called a hijab. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign apologized for two volunteers’ refusals to allow Hebba Aref and another woman, Shimaa [...]
Amid the buzz around Al Gore’s rousing endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama last night at Joe Louis Arena was the presumed presidential nominee’s use of his campaign stop in Detroit to register voters, inspire droves of new volunteers and shore up his support in this crucial electoral state. Obama spoke before a wildly enthusiastic capacity [...]
8th District Democratic candidate and former Michigan co-chair of Draft Al Gore 2008 reacts to historic endorsement at Joe Louis Arena Before East Lansing consultancy owner Bob Alexander announced he would challenge Republican Mike Rogers in the 8th Congressional District, he was one of the Midwest’s strongest voices for trying to get Al Gore to [...]
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