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 organization that owns the now-infamous C Street House in Washington, D.C., which includes at least two Michigan legislators — Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Pete Hoekstra — as members, received $50,000 in donations from an Islamic charity that appears on a Senate list of groups that fund terrorism. Those donations were then used to [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a leading GOP candidate for governor, admitted over the weekend to being a member of the Family, a Christian fundamentalist group that operates largely in secret and has a history of ties to some of the world’s most barbaric regimes.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a non-profit, non-partisan government watchdog organization, has filed complaints with the Senate Ethics Committee and the House Office of Congressional Ethics against the current and former residents of the now-infamous C Street house in Washington D.C. — including Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan. The C Street house is [...]
Buried in a Washington Post story about a group of Ohio clergy asking the IRS to revoke the tax exemption of the now-infamous C Street house in Washington D.C. is the fact that Rep. Bart Stupak, who lived in that house for many years and is a member of The Family (aka The Fellowship) with [...]
The now-infamous C Street house in Washington D.C., owned by a mysterious Christian group called the Family or the Fellowship and home to numerous members of Congress including U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, is no longer tax exempt. The house, which was formerly a convent, has long been listed as a church with the [...]
World Magazine, one of the leading Christian publications in America, has their own expose` on The Family (aka The Fellowship) and the now-infamous “C Street” house in Washington, D.C., where U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan lives. The article cites Chris Halverson, son of the late chaplain of the U.S. Senate Richard Halverson, who was [...]
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak has introduced a bill that would transfer a piece of Coast Guard-owned property in Cheboygan to a Christian school free of charge, an action that legal experts say would run afoul of the separation of church and state required by the First Amendment’s religion clauses.
Rachel Maddow picked up on the Messenger’s story about Rep. Bart Stupak’s denials of any affiliation with the Family despite living at the now-infamous C street house for several years. She had Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and the person we cited in our article [...]
Despite weeks of media attention paid to the now-infamous “C Street” house owned by The Family, a secretive Christian group, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak — who lives at the house near the U.S. Capitol — denied any knowledge of the nature of the mysterious Washington, D.C., rowhouse and any involvement with the organization that owns it and uses as a seat of influence on Capitol Hill.
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