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 one of those abundantly obvious statements spokespeople sometimes make, the case of Mohammad Abdollahi and two other undocumented youth detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona this afternoon has provided the best “well, duh” statement yet: “We have reason to believe they might be in the country unlawfully,” [Vincent] Picard said.
One Michigan has announced that it will host vigils in Detroit and Lansing Tuesday to continue calls for the passage of the DREAM Act and to support three undocumented youth and a supporter arrested Monday during a sit-in protest at Sen. John McCain’s Tucson, AZ office. The DREAM Act, supporters say, would create a path [...]
WASHINGTON — In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of the Democratic nomination on suspicion that he was not an American citizen. The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief was filed [...]
Hat tip to Fred Clarkson at Talk2Action, who caught a self-identified Christian reconstructionist praying for God to strike down John McCain so Sarah Palin can become president.
John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. In and of itself, the revelation is no knock on Palin’s parenting says Jeff Morley, national editorial director of Michigan Messenger’s parent organization, The Center for Independent Media.
Two polls, one by the Detroit News and one by the Detroit Free Press, show conflicting results in the race for Michigan’s electoral votes for president. The Detroit Free Press poll showed Obama with a 7-point lead, while the Detroit News poll showed Obama with a much smaller 2-point lead. Both polls were of 600 [...]
During a high-profile visit to southeast Michigan’s Fermi 2 nuclear generating complex Aug. 5 by nuclear power advocate and presidential candidate John McCain, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the first public meeting on plans for the construction of a new reactor at Fermi. If you can’t make it to the La-Z-Boy Center at Monroe County Community [...]
The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Barack Obama is getting six times as much support from American military personnel serving overseas than John McCain. Interestingly, even Ron Paul, who was staunchly opposed to the Iraq war, has gotten 4 1/2 times the contributions from overseas soldiers than McCain has.
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