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.
In the aftermath of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), a federal judge and several others on Saturday, the million dollar question seems to be what role the increasingly vitriolic and even violent political rhetoric in America’s political discourse may have played in encouraging such acts.
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is under fire for an obscenity-laced voicemail he left Saturday for a Republican candidate for the Macomb County Commission. The call from Smith was prompted after Republican James Perna and the Macomb County Republican Party sent out a mailer saying the Smith family has relied on public sector employment. Perna [...]
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is taking heat for comments he made in an interview with the Two Guys Named Joe podcast. The podcast, which features Democratic political consultant Joe DiSano and Republican political consultant Joe Munem, is an exploration of all things Michigan politics. The two consultants were at the Democratic Party’s nominating convention [...]
On Tuesday I reported about robocalls being paid for by Joe Munem which attacked GOP candidate for governor Rick Snyder. In that robocall, Snyder is attacked for being “sued by former Gateway customers…”
John Weaver, a political consultant for Rick Snyder’s bid for the Republican nomination for governor, is no stranger to political hack attacks. He helmed the McCain 2000 campaign during the South Carolina primary in which Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was savaged with push polls and whisper campaigns. McCain lost that primary, and George W. Bush [...]
It didn’t take long for the GOP gubernatorial race and the special interests to launch the ad wars over who should be the standard bearer for the Republicans in the August primary. Last week, the campaign of Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard became the target of a nonprofit organization’s criticisms with a billboard and website. [...]
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