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.
President-elect Barack Obama had a few heated things to say about U.S. auto executives on “Good Morning America” Wednesday morning. He accused the Detroit Three’s corporate executives of being “tone deaf” to the hardships of working Americans in the midst of financial fallout. He also blasted them for not foregoing bonuses.
The folks at Canada’s Globe and Mail don’t think it’s any coincidence that Michigan’s Gov. Jennifer Granholm was positioned just over President-elect Obama’s shoulder during his first press conference. They think it was a deliberate sign that cash is on the way. Here’s a clip:
Former Vice President Al Gore wants President-elect Barack Obama to reaffirm his pledge to get the United States off of carbon in 10 years. After making the case as to why it’s imperative, Gore lays out the following five-step plan in Sunday’s New York Times:
Since 1948, the small town of Dixville Notch, NH has taken great pride at being the first town in the nation to vote. Everyone eligible to vote in the town of 115 heads to the polls at midnight, the votes are counted, and the press is informed of the results.
I thought that when the McCain campaign pulled out of Michigan and we lost our “swing state” designation we would stop being relevant, at least through the election. Thanks to the efforts of one woman, however, Michigan is back in the spotlight.
One thing Barack Obama isn’t lacking is high-profile endorsements. As recently as this weekend, he picked up a big one from the Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell. But for a campaign like Obama’s, which is putting a lot of eggs in the basket of young voters, perhaps one of his most crucial supporters [...]
There’s less than a week before the October 6th deadline for voter registration. And we have only five weeks before election day on November 4th. With time running low, rumors are flying faster than ever about who can vote and who cannot. Some people are using the social networking site Facebook.com to host a growing string of [...]
After the Obama campaign filed suit today against the Michigan Republican Party, seeking to block plans to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls in November, James Carabelli, the Macomb County GOP chair, responded with a press release threatening legal action against the Michigan Messenger, which broke the story of his party’s plans last [...]
Non-standard unsolicited absentee ballots are being mailed by McCain’s campaign; is this a “dirty trick”?
Let’s face it. Right now the Obama campaign seems to be outpunched by the McCain campaign, what with their nasty but effective lies, their clever use of Sarahmania, their terrifying images of wolves, their distractions about pigs, and their overblown patriotism. Between now and election day, it’s going to come down to the debates and [...]
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