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.
Cash-strapped and facing 12-percent unemployment, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said she is more than happy to accept any federal stimulus money that other states may turn down. “Michigan would like to be first in line,” Granholm wrote in a letter to Vice President Biden, who is in charge of implementing the recovery package. In recent [...]
GOP defends state subsidies in ‘New Detroit’; southern states gave auto firms tax-breaks and cash for training.
Congress holds hearings on controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy The gay blog and media outlets are abuzz with Wednesday’s hearings about repealing the ban on gays in the military. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) even went so far as to liveblog from the event. The interesting thing about all this is, while there were [...]
South Carolina so NOT gay Someone made a big “oops” down in the Palmetto State when she approved an expenditure of less than one-half of one-tenth of 1 percent of South Carolina’s tourism promotions budget on a London advertising campaign to bill the Southern state as a destination for gay tourists. Gov. Mark Sanford ordered [...]
Former Senator John Edwards suffered another blow to his campaign tonight, coming in third behind Senators Obama and Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary. In 2004, Edwards won the South Carolina Democratic primary winning with 45 percent of the vote. Tonight, Edwards came in third, securing 19 percent of the vote. In a short [...]
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