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.
Couldn’t get tickets or take time off to go to the Obama ’08 event today? Not to worry; Michigan Messenger has two team members on site now at Troy High School to cover the Obama campaign event. Minehaha Forman is gathering opinions from the crowd now waiting outside and inside the venue, and Todd Heywood [...]
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, will be at Troy High School in Oakland County early this afternoon. The event may be the unofficial launch of Sen. Obama’s general election campaign as he is now approximately 46 delegates away from clinching the Democratic Party nomination, after Sen. Clinton’s win [...]
After a protracted meeting this morning and afternoon, an unexpectedly long lunch after 3:00 pm, and a heated period of debate, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) voted to seat all the delegates of Michigan and Florida, allowing each delegate 1/2 vote. Harold Ickes, both a member of the RBC and a [...]
LANSING — The campaign team of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is hitting the ground hard this weekend in the Lansing area with volunteers spreading out all over the area to register voters. The campaign is operating the registration drive from the back room of Gone Wired Cafe, a local coffee shop on Lansing’s Eastside. Sara [...]
[ED. NOTE: CONTENT UNEDITED] We are following the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) meeting this morning in Washington DC. The RBC is expected to make a determination today as to the seating of delegates from Michigan and Florida; both states have been penalized for pushing their primaries ahead of the scheduled dates [...]
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 [...]
The proposal asks that delegates be divided 69 for Hillary Clinton and 59 for Barack Obama. Anxious to seat its delegates after breaking party rules, the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) has formally petitioned the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to lift the death penalty it levied on the state for holding its primary election early. The [...]
The excitement was apparent at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday when people started crowding into the Macomb Community College Student Activities Center in Warren, Mich., ready to see and hear Sen. Barack Obama address the economic stresses facing Michigan workers. A couple of women held Obama signs under their arms as they waited to enter the room [...]
The buzz around the blogosphere focuses on John Edwards’ interview this morning with Matt Lauer on The Today Show. Did Edwards slip and say he voted for Barack Obama? What do you think? And what do you think it means for the remaining Democratic primary races? Share your thoughts in comments.
For Sen. Barack Obama and his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it’s over. Damage to their relationship is now far beyond the stress of sound bites. After giving a keynote address at the NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner Sunday night that was hailed as “excellent” by Rick Sanchez of CNN and a [...]
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