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.
UPDATE — 4:00 PM EDT – The petition drive has now been launched at FireDogLake; click here to read the post. CLICK HERE for the petition itself. 11:51 AM EDT – Michigan Messenger has learned that a petition drive based on a grassroots proposal outlining distribution of delegates between Democratic candidates will be launched this [...]
As Michigan Democratic Party activists convene this weekend to select their congressional district delegates, no doubt the focus will be on the continuing primary mess. There’s little agreement among state party leaders about who’s to blame for failing to ensure that those Michigan delegates have a secure place at the party’s national convention. The April [...]
[COMMENTARY] I have a serious case of election fatigue, and I’m not the only one. Just Google it. From Bitch Magazine to Jack Cafferty, folks are ready for this thing to be over. The Democratic primary season has gone on too long, just like the winter. This season’s election fatigue feels like a bad case [...]
A brief explanation of the Michigan presidential primary mess from Campaign Logic at Coudal Partners, offered here without commentary. We’d rather hear what you think about this video and about this topic. So…what do you think?
There’s no formal Democratic response yet to a plan by a Michigan congressman to resolve the state’s primary delegate dilemma. U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, in a letter Monday to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, suggested the committee split the state’s 83 pledged delegates based on results of Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary and divide [...]
The protracted battle for Democratic National Convention delegates between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is confusing to average voters, looks unseemly and worries Democrats whose party conflict is set in relief by the GOP’s unified support of John McCain. But according to an expert in electoral politics, the delegate selection process varies from state [...]
Michigan Democratic Party leaders are still hunting for a solution to the controversy over their national convention delegates, but each passing day makes a state primary do-over less likely. The state party has postponed for two weeks district conventions to select the majority of the state’s delegates. Those conventions had been scheduled for this weekend. [...]
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds issued a ruling Wednesday afternoon that threw even more confusion and uncertainly into Michigan’s already muddled presidential primary election fiasco. The ruling struck down as unconstitutional a provision in the law that would give the voter lists from the Jan. 15 primary only to the two major political parts and [...]
Sen. Hillary Clinton came to Michigan Wednesday and publicly urged Sen. Barack Obama to get on board plans for a proposed do-over Democratic primary. Clinton visited the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees building in downtown Detroit in a last-minute appearance designed to pressure Obama and state lawmakers who have said they don’t [...]
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