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.
Remember that all-important Democratic Rules and Nominations committee meeting at the end of May that finally, definitively punished Florida and Michigan for violating the primary calendar? Well, forget it. Now that it doesn’t matter to the nomination math, Barack Obama is recommending that the two states’ delegations be seated at full strength.
Barack Obama made headlines across the country mere blocks from Michigan’s capitol building today when he announced plans that would end our nation’s reliance on foreign oil in ten years. Falling short of Al Gore’s recent proposal to convert our nation’s electrical grid to 100 percent renewable energy (wind and solar) in ten years, the [...]
Despite speculation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will name Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as his vice presidential nominee on Wednesday, when Michigan Messenger asked a highly placed source in the Obama campaign about the possibility, the source was visibly surprised about the information. “I don’t know anything about that,” the source said. “I have not [...]
LANSING, Mich — On the campaign trail there are announcements and then there are announcements. Obama chose to unveil the details of his energy plan here–the center of 20th-century American industrial greatness and 21st-century economic hardship — saying: “If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the [...]
Barack Obama noted in his speech today from Lansing, Mich. that last week Congress began work on a compromise that would include a “limited amount of new offshore drilling.” He said, “I’m willing to consider that IF it’s necessary to pass the legislation” that would break the addiction to foreign oil. “I’m not interested in [...]
[Ed. note: Ed Brayton and Todd Heywood have been on site at the Lansing Center, providing live coverage of the Obama campaign event today. Earlier coverage, Obama's speech and photos can be found below the jump.]
In a “change” election that’s pointedly anti-incumbent, the in-power, out-of-favor Republicans seem to have found traction with voters on the issue of domestic drilling.
Civil rights group: Michigan GOP congressman stirs anti-Arab mood An Arab-American civil rights group says U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, is using anti-Arab scare tactics as part of election-year self-promotion. Last week Rogers, who is running against
Second-quarter campaign-finance reports were due last night from candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, and the telling disclosures are now viewable online at the FEC Web site. Altogether, Republican candidates raised $9,518,684 between April 1 and July 16. Democrats collected $8,722,489 for the same period.
‘This is your office’: Obama organizers welcome volunteers Live music, food, drinks and, of course, opportunities to volunteer marked the opening of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s Michigan campaign headquarters in Detroit. Volunteers handed out purple string bracelets that signified the political unity of red and blue combined. Meanwhile, the jazz band played longer than [...]
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