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 poll by Inside Michigan Politics and the Marketing Resource Group found Attorney General Mike Cox, U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra and venture capitalist Rick Snyder in a virtual three way tie for first place with 21 percent, 21 percent and 20 percent respectively. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is in 4th place at only [...]
With the field of candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor finally set, political insiders and pundits are divided on which candidate will emerge from the pack while the public asks, “Who are those people?”
Election Protection is reporting that wait times have reached five hours at some precincts in Detroit where lines grew to more than 1,000 people at Beth Eden Baptist Church. They said this was largely due to lack of staffing at the polling place.
• From conservative Grosse Pointe Woods today, one Republican voter said she wasn’t pleased with her choices, but voted McCain because “It was the better of two evils.”
If Mitt Romney’s convictions are correct, it looks like Obama’s gonna win the election. On the warm evening of July 14, Romney told the 200 attendees at the grand opening of McCain’s Great Lakes Regional Headquarters: “I’m convinced that whoever wins the state of Michigan will be the next president of the United States.”
Michael Traugott, professor of communication studies and political science at the University of Michigan, says that poll numbers in the state were the likely reason for Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s evacuation.
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 [...]
The Washington Independent examines Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s appeal to veterans and the substantial lead he carries with this group in the polls. But is McCain really the best man to lead the way on veterans’ issues? From The Washington Independent:
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