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.
Gov.-elect Rick Snyder continues to announce the names of people who will help run the government when he takes the reigns Saturday at noon. On Wednesday evening he announced the interim leadership for the Michigan Department of Human Services.
Public Citizen put out a post-election report that looked at spending by third-party organizations that can take unlimited contributions and do not have to disclose their donors in all of the races in which a seat in the U.S. House or Senate changed hands from one party to another. In the 74 races where that [...]
In a post election interview with the Jackson Citizen Patriot, Congressman-elect Tim Walberg said if President Barack Obama doesn’t follow the mandate of the voters, “he will shut government down.”
Yet another prominent Republican has come out and endorsed Democrat Mark Schauer in his race against Republican Tim Walberg in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. This time it’s Gary Reed, former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party. Former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz, who once held the same seat Schauer now holds, has already endorsed Schauer. [...]
A new poll from WLNS in Lansing shows incumbent Rep. Mark Schauer with a 7-point lead over Republican Tim Walberg in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, one of the key swing districts in the country that could help determine whether the Democrats can hold on to control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Tim Walberg, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House from the 7th District of Michigan, told the Michigan Messenger Monday evening as he was going into a public event that the Photoshopped image at the end of one of his campaign commercials wasn’t “a biggie.”
Republican Tim Walberg, like nearly all other Republican legislators or office seekers, has repeatedly claimed that President Obama’s stimulus package was a failure and has not produced any jobs. But as ThinkProgress noted on Friday, Walberg has proof this isn’t true because his own son is employed on a stimulus-funded infrastructure project:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce may be overwhelmingly Republican in the candidates they endorse, but local chambers of commerce are more diverse in their choices. Rep. Mark Schauer, the Democratic incumbent from the 7th District, has received the endorsement of the two major chambers in his district — the [...]
A new commercial from the Walberg campaign uses a Photoshopped image from a photo op to honor the MSU college debate team to make his opponent, Mark Schauer, look as though he’s standing arm in arm with Nancy Pelosi.
A new Epic/MRA poll shows the Democrats pulling ahead of their Republican rivals in two very important Michigan congressional districts. In the 7th District, incumbent Democrat Mark Schauer has pulled out to a six point lead over Republican Tim Walberg and now leads 45-39 percent. This despite outside interest groups spending huge amounts of money [...]
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