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.
A new Epic/MRA poll shows that nearly twice as many Michigan voters disapprove of the way Gov. Rick Snyder is doing his job than approve of it. The survey of 600 likely voters found 33 percent approved of the governor’s performance while 62 percent disapproved, with 5 percent undecided.
A new poll shows Democratic nominee for governor Virg Bernero is closing the gap between himself and GOP nominee Rick Snyder. For weeks polls have shown Snyder leading the race by 20 points. But a new poll shows Bernero has cut Snyder’s lead to just over 12.5 percent, reports the Detroit News. The poll was [...]
An internal polling memo from the Bernero campaign leaked to the Michigan Messenger by a source inside the campaign shows Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s message and background could be enough for him to swing a win in the 2010 Democratic primary for governor. According to a memo from Michael Kulischek of the Colorado polling firm [...]
State Sen. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) was plastering Facebook with links to a Sunday article in the Detroit Free Press. The reason? The article noted a very unscientific poll with a tiny sampling indicated Clarke was besting longtime Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick 27 percent to 19 percent. Kilpatrick is, of course, the mother of former Detroit Mayor [...]
A new poll by Denno-Noor research shows that Congressman Pete Hoekstra has 28 percent support in the GOP primary, while Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder is now second with 18 percent and Mike Cox, the attorney general has 12 percent. The poll shows 31 percent of voters are undecided in that primary. The poll shows [...]
Schools across Michigan are shutting down because of the appearance of a flu like illness. Kalamazoo County Health Department says several districts in the county will shut down for the next two days, and individual schools in two other districts are shutting down, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
A new poll conducted by Denno Noor Research of Lansing and reported by Freep.com shows that businessman David Bing and interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. are the leading candidates in Detroit’s mayoral primary set for February 24th.
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