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.
Nolan Finley has a column in the Detroit News about the recent spate of violent threats toward Democratic politicians who supported health care reform, including Reps. Bart Stupak and Mark Schauer of Michigan. And while he offers the usual rote condemnation of violence, he can’t resist blaming it on the victims because of their “deafness” [...]
Detroit’s latest public corruption production is, mercifully, almost over. In fact, closing arguments over political consultant Sam Riddle’s alleged scheme to extort thousands in bribes were entered into the record just a couple hours ago. Summing up the prosecution’s take on the self-described “political pirate” (courtesy of extensive wire tapped phone calls), Assistant U.S. Attorney [...]
Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley writes in his blog
Despite being only on the air for two shows last week because of illness, conservative WJR-AM radio host Frank Beckmann has plenty of examples of his bias on display. His show on Wednesday, as are all of his shows, served as a two-and- one half hour platform for his conservative views. That’s fine, but not [...]
The Michigan Messenger readers have spoken, and after a week of online voting the Big 3 of media bias are Detroit News editor Nolan Finley, radio host Frank Beckmann and Detroit Free Press reporter Dawson Bell. We asked our readers to nominate which journalists were the most biased, and from that list we asked them [...]
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