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.
It’s December already and the February primary for Detroit’s special mayoral election is only two months away. But in Detroit signs that a mayoral race is underway are just starting to show. Two weeks ago a public forum in which seven mayoral candidates voiced their agendas to 200 attendees at the Charles H. Wright Museum [...]
During Michigan’s August primaries, Michigan Messenger reported an incident where a Republican candidate for Eaton County sheriff, the county west of Lansing’s Ingham County, accused incumbent Eaton County Sheriff Mike Raines of stealing his political signs.
Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has her Democratic running rivals in the 13th Congressional district strapped for cash while she, the incumbent, keeps raking it in. Kilpatrick is outspending her competitors with ad campaign efforts in form of billboards, brochures, and commercials. Tonight, her financial edge on competitors is displayed by their differences in choices in [...]
When John Edwards picked former Michigan Congressman David Bonior to be his campaign manager in his race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the theme was to fight for the working class. This strategy required the validation and resources of unions, and Bonior seemed uniquely positioned to get those. But to avoid splitting endorsements and diluting [...]
[COMMENTARY] First featured as an exclusive at our sister site, Iowa Independent, we are pleased to publish this guest commentary by former Sen. John Edwards’s national campaign manager David Bonior. Recently, my home state of Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by scheduling its primary before February 5. In response, John Edwards removed his name [...]
Al Gore’s supporters in Michigan have renewed hope for their candidate in 2008. His Nobel Peace Prize gleams in the heavy shadow cast by top-tier Democratic presidential candidates’ snubbing Michigan early this week. Today, Gore was named a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – [...]
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