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.
Now that the McCain campaign has pulled out of Michigan, the state Republican Party is desperate to keep the money flowing in so they can continue to spend on state and local races. Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis sent out an email Tuesday pointing to one recent poll that looked relatively favorable for them and [...]
Andrew Sullivan discusses the first poll to come out that looks at how Palin is viewed by voters. It shows some pretty interesting things. In particular, it looks like she doesn’t appeal much to those undecided voters both campaigns are looking to woo:
Their popularity makes accurate polling more difficult As more and more Americans, particularly younger people, do away with landline telephones and begin to use cell phones exclusively, experts on public opinion research both inside and outside of the industry have been struggling to come to terms with how this might affect the accuracy of telephone [...]
Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, is favored in Michigan with 45 percent of the vote while John McCain earns 42 percent, according to the latest survey from Rasmussen Reports taken on Monday. Since John McCain scored the Republican nomination there have been four of these polls, all of which put the two candidates within three [...]
With the Democratic National Committee rules committee preparing to make decisions today on the Michigan and Florida delegate seating crisis, East Lansing-based Democratic consultant Mark Grebner said the race for the Democratic nomination is over — and Barack Obama, the senator from Illinois, is the winner. “The nomination struggle is over,” Grebner said Friday in [...]
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