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.
Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices. Now environmental groups and some conservative politicians are pointing out another problem — corn-based ethanol consumes the bulk of federal funding on renewable energy and the big oil companies that blend the ethanol into gasoline are collecting subsidies to the tune of about $6 billion a year.
Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm has some harsh words for GOP candidates for president Tuesday after Chrysler announced it had paid back its debt to the government. On her Facebook page, Granholm posted the following:
With the withdrawal of moderate Republican state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava from the race to fill the 23rd Congressional district seat New York, there seems to be some familiar echoes from Michigan’s not too distant past. Remember Dr. Joe Schwarz? He was the Congressman for the 7th Congressional District, a district drawn by the GOP in [...]
I just read a breaking news report which said Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota got the thumbs down from the McCain campaign for the veep slot. MSNBC mentions in its freshly updated report that Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania and Connecticut’s Sen. Joe Lieberman could still be in the running. Speculation about Alaska’s Gov. Sarah Palin [...]
Republican presumptive Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has managed to keep his number two selection silent, even as the media has gone bonkers trying to read the tea leaves, plane travel and secret service actions with various folks who have been listed as possibly being McCain’s choice.
Detroit-born Mitt “Mittens” Romney has been sighted in Denver, according to our sister site, The Colorado Independent. He went into the RNC Rapid Response Center and emerged later, on the attack like a junkyard dog.
It’s going to be wall-to-wall hair plugs today, a continuous stream of Joe Biden, every mainstream media news outlet trying to overcome the obvious fact that it was cut out of the loop by the Obama campaign with the announcement of the Democratic veep selection by text message.
From an email exchange this afternoon: Robin Marty: Subject: our vp pick can totally beat up your vp pick [LINK]
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