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.
Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) announced Thursday that the Michigan Senate Judiciary would review statute of limitations provisions in Michigan law with an eye towards increasing them.
Democratic nominee for Michigan Attorney General David Leyton says his office received a death threat targeting him over the weekend. MIRS, a subscription only newsletter covering politics and the Capitol, reports on the content of the threat:
The mother of murder victim who stars in a campaign ad for the Schuette campaign invokes the age-old slur of “Jewish-owned media” in attacking David Leyton and gets support from Schuette rather than condemnation.
The Detroit Free Press examined the publicly available records in the controversial lawsuit against the city of Detroit by three of Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s children. The lawsuit has become a political weapon in the primary for the GOP nomination for governor, with Attorney General Mike Cox being targeted from the revelations in the lawsuit’s affidavit [...]
A state police investigator alleged Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox interfered with an investigation into a party that allegedly occurred at the Detroit mayoral residence, Manoogian Mansion. Investigator Mark Krebs, a detective with the Michigan State Police, testified in the civil lawsuit against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other officials for their alleged involvement [...]
The son of slain Owosso anti-abortion rights protester James Pouillon told the Flint Journal that abortion foes have selected the wrong man to lionize as a martyr for their cause. Grand Rapids podiatrist James M. Pouillon has not had contact with his father since 2001. But he isn’t staying silent about the way his father [...]
President Barack Obama released a one sentence statement on Sunday regarding Friday’s shootings in Owosso. One of the two men killed was a longtime anti-choice advocate, who at the time of the shooting was standing in front of Owosso High School with his political signs, including one showing the picture of a baby with the [...]
The Flint Journal is reporting that well known Owosso-based anti-abortion activist James Pouillion, 63, has been shot to death in front of Owosso High School. The shooting happened at approximately 7:30 a.m. Police have said they do not know if Pouillion’s murder was connected to his activism, reports the Lansing State Journal.
GEO Group, the private prison corporation which is expanding its facility in Baldwin, Michigan to house “criminal aliens” held by the federal government, has been charged with murder for allowing fatal beatings at a Texas facility.
DETROIT — The murder of a transgender woman discovered this week has been mishandled by the Detroit Police Department, says Mara Keisling,executive director of the National Center for Trangender Equality. “Understand that this kind of crime, besides being a tragedy for the victim and her loved ones, makes a lot of people nervous,” Keisling said. [...]
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