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.
With both chambers of the state legislature and all the top offices in state government about to be filled with a Republican majority, leaders of the state’s major LGBT organizations say that pro-equality legislation is likely dead in the political water.
In a strange political twist, Kyle Bristow, the former chair and current communications director of Michigan State University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, is denying he is seeking the youth chairmanship of the Michigan Republican Party.
Within minutes of the announcement that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be Arizona Sen. John McCain’s choice for the second slot on the Republican ticket, Michigan Messenger was able to get responses on the choice from conservative blogger Joe Sylvester and Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis. “At first glance Gov. Palin appears to have impressive [...]
Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell is at it again.
Joe Sylvester, 23, is a complex conservative. He believes deeply in ending abortion, assuring free access to guns and a limited government. The Bay City native, who runs the Michigan Conservative Dossier blog, calls himself a “true conservative or a paleoconservative.” While he supports anti-gay politicians and pundits, Sylvester himself is gay. His blog, which [...]
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