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 Michigan Department of Transportation suddenly has an extra $11 million thanks to underbidding for roadwork projects along Saginaw County’s Interstate 675, the Saginaw News is reporting.
The New York Times gives high-profile treatment today to efforts in Flint to deal with a deluge of abandoned and vacant properties by literally shrinking the city — demolishing the houses, urging people to leave, cordoning off the decay and leaving it to nature. The Times focuses on Genesee County Treasurer and Land Bank Chairman [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal in a case the Messenger reported on earlier this year.
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, drew a crowd of 15,900 to downtown Grand Rapids this morning according to the Grand Rapids Police Department.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will barnstorm Michigan today in four separate events.
Click to enlarge the image. (photo: JEFF SCHRIER/The Saginaw News) A small band of protesters and Barack Obama supporters holds signs outside Dow Corning’s Solar Solutions Application Center in Freeland while Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. visited the facility.) I think we found the rationale for Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s [...]
The Alliance Defense Fund has announced that they are filing an appeal (called a cert petition) with the Supreme Court in a Michigan case involving a student’s right to do a religious-themed project for school (see our previous report on the case here).
For the first time in two years, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm is calling out the National Guard to help with cleanup and other actions in the wake of recent storms. Granholm issued an executive order Monday activating the Michigan National Guard to assist jurisdictions operating under a state of emergency because of storms that swept [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will require the Dow Chemical Co. to take immediate steps to clean up dioxin contamination in and around 10 homes on Riverside Boulevard in Saginaw. EPA officials, along with staff from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Community Health, met with residents [...]
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