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 fundraising event for 7th Congressional district candidate Tim Walberg featuring former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been postponed. Congressional Quarterly reports the event was supposed to happen Monday June 21, but was canceled due to last minute “scheduling” issues. But Walberg tells CQ he would happily host the former mayor, calling the [...]
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani stirred up controversy Sunday when he joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the campaign trail, warning an audience of orthodox Jewish voters that a vote for Bloomberg’s opponent in the mayoral race, African-American candidate William Thompson, would make the city comparable to modern-day Detroit.
In this week’s installment of Brayton’s Bag o’ Snark: Orwell lives, ‘Jerk of the Year’, Hollywood Effete Elitists, and POW!
Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is organizing a civil disobedience campaign aimed at derailing Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid. “Rudy Giuliani is an enemy to the Reagan revolution,” Terry told the Michigan Messenger by phone from Florida where he was preparing for a press conference in front of the Duval County Republican [...]
Rudy Giuliani, recently seen as a front-runner in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, won only 3 percent of the vote in the Iowa primary, and is trailing McCain, Romney and Huckabee in a recent poll of those likely to vote in New Hampshire’s primary on Jan 8. “We have strong organization in many [...]
Giuliani, hospitalized with the flu yesterday and trailing in the polls, faces more bad news today. Vanity Fair is running a major story by Michael Shnayerson that details how Giuliani leveraged his post 9/11 hero-mayor identity to build a lucrative consulting company that has advanced the interests of pharmacuetical, energy, and security companies and positioned [...]
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