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.
The Detroit Free Press has an article about the court ruling last week that gave Mark Grebner — and everyone else — access to data on which party’s primary Michigan voters voted in during the 2008 election. They begin that article with a false dichotomy:
The crowded field of Republican contenders for governor just got a little more crowded. Huron County Board of Commissioners member Tim Rujan has announced he will seek the GOP nod in 2010, and will battle U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and State Sen. Tom George of Texas Township.
The GOP icon Samuel Wurzelbacher, more popularly known as Joe the Plumber, has told Time magazine he is quitting the Republican Party, a party that incidentally catapulted his image to the forefront of the national conscience during the 2008 presidential race when Republican John McCain of Arizona made mention of Joe the Plumber during a [...]
ACORN today urged officials in all states to protect the voting rights of people who fear their eligibility will be challenged because their homes are in foreclosure.
From the 2008 Republican Party platform: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. You may laugh now.
Third-party presidential candidate is openly courting voters from both parties, but his hardline message targets conservative Kent County voters With the announcement June 24 that Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin had opened his national campaign office in Grand Rapids, it raises a question about the potential political impact his presence might have for the [...]
Keith Butler may have lost his 2006 bid for the US Senate, but he isn’t done with politics. Butler, pastor of the Word of Faith International Christian Center in Detroit, is poised to become the Michigan representative on the Republican National Committee. His opponent, incumbent committee member Chuck Yob, withdrew from the race recently, paving [...]
Ward Connerly, the libertarian California businessman who spearheaded the ballot initiative that banned affirmation action programs in Michigan last year, told a gathering of Michigan Republicans not to misrepresent their values to blacks. Speaking at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island over the weekend Connerly said that the state Republican Party made a [...]
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