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.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Detroit Free Press may stop delivering the newspaper four days a week:
If you’re looking for the cause of the massive layoffs being undertaken by newspapers around the country, this Huffington Post article has an explanation:
If you’re not a regular subscriber to your favorite print newspaper and thought you’d pick up a copy Wednesday morning for the “Obama” headline, odds are you were probably out of luck.
[COMMENTARY] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently overturned a 32-year-old ban aimed at doing away with media monopolies and ensuring there is a diversity of voices on the airwaves and in print. The administrative ruling will let owners of a TV or radio station buy a newspaper, or vice versa, in the nation’s 20 largest [...]
Do you vote the way your local newspaper tells you? More and more, the answer is no. Many newspapers are no longer endorsing political candidates, and experts say the public is also placing less stock in endorsements. Many experts say the charges of political bias that newspapers face when they make an endorsement are not [...]
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