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.
The man behind some of the most “reprehensible” — in the words of John McCain — GOP attack ads in recent memory is getting involved in Michigan’s gubernatorial race. According to campaign finance reports, Scott Howell and Company, whose partners were involved with infamous campaigns ads attacking Max Cleland and Harold Ford, has been hired as a media consultant by Oakland County Sheriff and GOP candidate for governor Mike Bouchard.
BENTON HARBOR — Former President George W. Bush, in a nearly 90-minute-long unscripted address to the local economic development club in this down-trodden southwest Michigan city, said Thursday evening he was honored to have served during “some unusual times,” making repeated references to the challenges he faced as commander in chief amid the “fog of war.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the U.S. Department of Justice another week’s extension to consider their response to the case involving congressional subpoenas of former Bush advisers Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten and Karl Rove. Those subpoenas came from Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who is [...]
Earlier this week, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena to former Bush adviser Karl Rove to appear before that committee. Now Karl Rove has responded rather derisively:
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) has issued a subpoena to Karl Rove to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about his role in the firing of several U.S. attorneys and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Non-standard unsolicited absentee ballots are being mailed by McCain’s campaign; is this a “dirty trick”?
The Associated Press had another installment of factual record-straightening ready to go as the curtain closed on another night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Some Dems in Denver are worried that the choice of venue for Barack Obama’s historic nomination acceptance speech plays into the hand of recent Republican attack ads.
Detroit-born Mitt “Mittens” Romney has been sighted in Denver, according to our sister site, The Colorado Independent. He went into the RNC Rapid Response Center and emerged later, on the attack like a junkyard dog.
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