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.
We’ll be live blogging the results of the presidential primaries this evening as polls close across the nation, from Vermont to Texas. Be sure to join us as we tote up the votes and count the delegates. Polls close in these states at these times: Vermont: 7:00 pm EST Ohio: 7:30 pm EST Rhode Island: [...]
Michigan Messenger will be providing live coverage through the rest of Super Tuesday primary evening. Be sure to check regularly for new content as results are posted across the country. 12:35 am — [UPDATE] MISSOURI It appears that some mainstream outlets did call the outcome of Missouri’s Democratic primary too early. With ninety-eight percent of [...]
We experimented this evening with a “simul-chat” during the State of the Union speech; a handful of Michigan Messenger Fellows participated and shared their thoughts on the fly about the speech. Mind you, this chat isn’t chock full of news and should be considered stream-of-consciousness commentary, but it gave vent to concerns we share about [...]
[Ed. note: Brandon wasn't able to make it in to the group chat this evening; here are his perspectives and observations of this evening's speech. Compare them to those of the group chat post; did we have similar thoughts, in spite of our physical distance and our other personal attributes? What did Brandon note that [...]
Michigan Messenger will be providing live coverage through the rest of primary evening. Be sure to check regularly for new content posted from the field. UPDATE — 11:23 p.m. — Livingston County In predominantly Republican Livingston County, 17 percent of the registered voters — well below average — helped give former Gov. Mitt Romney a [...]
LANSING — Neeta Delaney, executive director of ArtServe Michigan will participate in a live blog chat with MichiganMessenger.com on Wednesday Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. ArtServe is Michigan’s art’s lobbying and education organization. The topic of the discussion will be the importance of arts funding to Michigan economic growth and how budget cuts could impact [...]
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