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.
News that the Gallup daily tracking poll shows John McCain with a 3-point lead over Barack Obama nationally may make Obama supporters panic. Relax, folks. This is almost entirely meaningless at this point for two main reasons:
As McCain continues to try to paint Obama as an “elitist” and criticise him for wanting to raise taxes on those who make over $250,000 a year, perhaps it’s worth pointing out that when Cindy McCain spoke to the Republican National Convention the other day the outfit she was wearing cost more than a very [...]
During his acceptance speech last night, John McCain tried out the old Bill Clinton schtick of feeling somebody else’s pain as he became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
Lavishly praised ideals of “country first,” and “service” met the grim realities of George W. Bush and the current state of the Republican Party at the RNC Convention, yielding mixed messages.
A hat tip to Michigan State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, who organized a blood drive at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Hoogendyk organized the Michigan delegation to the RNC in Minnesota to roll up their sleeves and donate blood to the Red Cross in anticipation of injuries from Hurricane Gustav and several other tropical storms [...]
Though thousands marched through the streets of St. Paul on Monday without incident, it was difficult to ignore a roving group of protesters who were sometimes marching and sometimes dashing their way through a parade route they reinvented by the minute. Michigan Messenger affiliate Minnesota Independent’s Jeff Severns Guntzel followed them to yesterday’s chemical-soaked climax.
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