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 lawsuit has been filed in Federal court against Blackwater USA by the Center for Constitutional Rights, on behalf of one survivor and the families of three victims in a September 16th incident in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead. You can read the full complaint here. The complaint contains some interesting information that may [...]
There have been several new developments over the last few days that are turning the Blackwater scandal into a major headache for the Bush administration. The LA Times reported that the State Department, which contracts with Blackwater to provide protection for their people in Iraq, ignored the warnings of numerous American diplomats who told them [...]
[Editor note: The House Oversight Committee will conduct a hearing today at 10:00 am EDT, on "Hearing on Private Security Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan"; witnesses scheduled to testify include Erik Prince, Chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA. Live feed of the hearing is expected at C-SPAN3; Michigan native Marcy Wheeler, author [...]
Sovereign Deed, a company that calls itself the nation’s first private civil defense firm, has decided to establish its national response center in Northern Michigan. Company CEO, Barrett H. Moore, also founded Triple Canopy, a company he said, “commercialized the market for specialized military services,” and made over 500 million dollars in military contracts. The [...]
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