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.
Tim Walberg, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House from the 7th District of Michigan, told the Michigan Messenger Monday evening as he was going into a public event that the Photoshopped image at the end of one of his campaign commercials wasn’t “a biggie.”
Republican Tim Walberg, like nearly all other Republican legislators or office seekers, has repeatedly claimed that President Obama’s stimulus package was a failure and has not produced any jobs. But as ThinkProgress noted on Friday, Walberg has proof this isn’t true because his own son is employed on a stimulus-funded infrastructure project:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce may be overwhelmingly Republican in the candidates they endorse, but local chambers of commerce are more diverse in their choices. Rep. Mark Schauer, the Democratic incumbent from the 7th District, has received the endorsement of the two major chambers in his district — the [...]
A new commercial from the Walberg campaign uses a Photoshopped image from a photo op to honor the MSU college debate team to make his opponent, Mark Schauer, look as though he’s standing arm in arm with Nancy Pelosi.
A new Epic/MRA poll shows the Democrats pulling ahead of their Republican rivals in two very important Michigan congressional districts. In the 7th District, incumbent Democrat Mark Schauer has pulled out to a six point lead over Republican Tim Walberg and now leads 45-39 percent. This despite outside interest groups spending huge amounts of money [...]
While Tim Walberg has the enormous spending of the American Future Fund on his side in his fight to regain the seat he lost in Congress in 2008, his opponent, Rep. Mark Schauer, is getting some help from a third-party group as well — the Sierra Club. The venerable environmental group is not going to [...]
In the very important 7th District congressional race, incumbent Democrat Mark Schauer has a sizable fundraising lead over his challenger, Republican Tim Walberg. But Walberg’s numbers do not include more than a half million dollars already spent on his behalf by a shadowy right-wing interest group called the American Future Fund.
Politico made a list of the 12 hottest races for the U.S. House of Representatives to watch, a key issue as the Republicans try to take control of at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections. The 7th District race between Rep. Mark Schauer and Tim Walberg was number six on that list. [...]
Michigan’s gubernatorial and congressional races are getting national attention because of their potential to help shift the balance in the U.S. House of Representatives to the Republicans in November. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post writes that a blowout win in the governor’s race could help swing two key House races:
Former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz, a Republican, has endorsed Democratic incumbent Rep. Mark Schauer over Republican Tim Walberg in the 7th District of Michigan. In a press release from the Schauer campaign, Schwarz said:
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