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.
Vanessa Oblinger, the Central Michigan University student and College Republican member who drew attention to allegations of underage drinking at various political events at Mackinac Island in Sept. says she did not pen the apology letter sent the campaign of Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder. In an interview with Central Michigan University’s newspaper CM-Life, [...]
Central Michigan University student Vanessa Oblinger, whose blog on underage drinking at the Republican Policy Conference last month, has sent a letter of apology to Ann Arbor business man and GOP candidate for governor apologizing for the furor over her blog post. Sources in the Snyder campaign confirm the letter is authentic and has been [...]
[COMMENTARY] I was still trying to digest Eric Alterman’s long, thoughtful article in the March 31, 2008, New Yorker about the demise of American newspapers when I noticed the March 29, 2008, Detroit Free Press front page story from Mackinac Island. Mackinac Island in March? Who’d want to be there when there’s snow on the [...]
Michigan Republicans are very excited. Now that the presidential primary has been moved up to January 15th, their biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference is shaping up to be biggest and most star-packed conference ever. All of the top GOP presidential candidates are expected here at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island this weekend. Republican party [...]
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