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.
Congressman Tim Walberg says that had GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney been the party’s nominee in 2008, he would never have lost his 7th Congressional District seat to Democrat Mark Schauer.
In an editorial published May 19, the New York Times took a cue from four undocumented youth who staged a sit-in protest at the Tucson AZ offices of Sen. John McCain on Monday. They were protesting for passage of the DREAM Act, a piece of federal legislation that would create a path to citizenship for [...]
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has issued a statement about Monday’s DREAM Act protests in his Tucson offices. Three undocumented youth and a fourth legal citizen were arrested at the office and charged with trespassing by Tucson authorities. Officials planned to release the youth Tuesday, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stepped in and detained [...]
The protest and arrest of a group of three undocumented youth and one permanent citizen at the offices of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has garnered local and national attention.
Priscila Martinez, campaign manager for One Michigan, has confirmed that the undocumented youth protesting at Arizona Sen. John McCain’s Tuscon office have been arrested. Flavia De La Fuente, national spokesperson for the students tells Michigan Messenger the protesters were arrested by Tuscon Police.
Undocumented immigrant and lifelong Michigan resident Mohammad Abdollahi is risking deportation and quite possibly execution during a dramatic sit-in protest at John McCain’s headquarters in Arizona today.
In an exclusive interview with the Michigan Messenger, Kildee says Cox sending wrong message on mortgage fraud and foreclosures with his campaign and legal choices.
If President Obama didn’t have enough headaches after the loss of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority on Tuesday night, another one emerged for him at a Senate hearing on Wednesday morning: Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence.
Much attention has been paid to Sen. John McCain’s comment the other day at a Nascar event that Chrysler is unlikely to survive, but that isn’t the only thing he said at the time. He also claimed — falsely — that the bailout happened because the unions refused to negotiate concessions to save the automakers [...]
OK, this is somewhat predictable, but still interesting. On Sunday, ex-GOP presidential nominee John McCain was doing his duty as grand marshal of a NASCAR race at the Phoenix International Raceway, and he made the following quip about what he clearly sees as Chrysler’s (non) prospects for success: “Anybody believes that Chrysler is going to [...]
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