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.
In what appears to be an effort to gain back minority voters, the Republican National Committee elected Michael Steele as the first African American to chair their party. Steele sounded a lot like President Obama In his acceptance speech to RNC Friday evening. But since Obama already owns the word “change,” Steele had to play [...]
Dave Weigel at our sister site, The Washington Independent, has been liveblogging the runoff for Republican National Committee chair. Saul Anuzis, most recently chair of the Michigan Republican Party, held on until the race narrowed down to the final two about 30 minutes ago after the fifth round of balloting. The last two candidates, Michael [...]
In the wake of last week’s disastrous election, Republicans are poised to name a new chairperson for the Republican National Committee (RNC). This Republican blog names Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis as one of the potential candidates.
GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
A new advertisement released by an arm of the Republican National Committee has Democratic leaders crying foul Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is not happy with a new GOP ad running on television stations in the state. Granholm joined Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Pennsylvania Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz Monday afternoon on a conference call with reporters [...]
Unconventional Michigan is organizing a June 14 Lansing teach-in for those interested in protesting the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul Sept. 1-4. “We believe that disrupting the convention offers a unique opportunity to take our opposition to the war, ecological destruction and other institutional forms of oppression to the next level,” the group writes, [...]
The ACLU of Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan’s new primary law that provides voter party preference declarations to the Democratic and Republican parties but forbids that same information to be given to any other political party or organization. The new primary law, which moved the date of the Michigan primaries up to [...]
There must be a few happy members in the Michigan’s Democratic leadership today, now that even the stodgy Wall Street Journal has taken notice of Michigan’s primary. Too bad, though, that the media is talking about the Republican Party. As the WSJ points out, Mike Murphy, a Republican campaign guru who cut his teeth in [...]
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