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 the U.S. House of Representatives already passing a $2 billion boost in the cash for clunkers program, the Senate now looks like it will follow suit after a few key senators who were skeptical of the program were convinced by data from the Obama administration confirming the environmental benefit of the program. The Detroit [...]
HIV/AIDS advocates are raising red flags and accusing President Barack Obama of backing off of his campaign promise to end a federal ban on needle exchange programs. But the administration says it is not backing off, according to Time Magazine. From the report:
The GOP icon Samuel Wurzelbacher, more popularly known as Joe the Plumber, has told Time magazine he is quitting the Republican Party, a party that incidentally catapulted his image to the forefront of the national conscience during the 2008 presidential race when Republican John McCain of Arizona made mention of Joe the Plumber during a [...]
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, former Republican presidential candidate, is openly calling for General Motors to declare bankruptcy: “I think the best thing that could probably happen to General Motors, in my view, is they go into Chapter 11, they reorganize, they renegotiate … the union-management contracts and come out of it a stronger, better, [...]
With several prominent Republicans balking at passing a rescue package for the auto industry, it is perhaps worth noting that John McCain, during the presidential campaign, came out strongly in favor of such a package. On Good Morning America, he was asked:
With all the talk about the religious right being anti-McCain, Steven Waldman reports that both the number and percentage of evangelical voters was higher for McCain than it was for Bush in 2004.
In any contest, there’s a winner and loser. So, needless to say, not everyone was pleased by Barack Obama’s victory last Tuesday night over John McCain. But how displeased some people were, even in heat of the moment of defeat, is alarming and noteworthy. Two campaign volunteers for Republican Rep. Tim Walberg (who eventually lost [...]
We just discovered this video, which was posted yesterday and shot by the Eastern Michigan University student newspaper, the Eastern Echo. Hundreds of student supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama gathered on campus to mark the historic event just before midnight on Tuesday, as cable news networks began declaring Obama and his running mate, [...]
11:03 p.m. — Kate Segal just declared victory. The announcement that Obama has just gained enough electoral votes to become president has the entire room on its feet cheering, hugging, now chanting “O-ba-ma!”, lots of tears. There is a continuous stream of screams and cries from the crowd. It is pandemonium here at the Holiday [...]
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