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.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has an impersonator — on Twitter. Someone created a Twitter profile under Bing’s name, uploaded a photo of the former basketball star, and started tweeting. The faker frequently tweeted about current city events and until recently, journalists believed the site reflected Bing’s personal opinion and quoted the tweets in stories.
Politicians and interest groups alike have recently taken to using Twitter and other social networking activities, but former Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich aren’t happy with one particular Twitter account. According to The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., the two conservative technophiles have threatened to sue an unnamed [...]
With just two weeks until Detroit’s special mayoral election, the two rival campaigns are heating up. And since pollsters are calling it a close election, it might not take much to swing the vote. That’s a good sign for interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., who narrowly trailed Bing by two percentage points (27-29 percent) in [...]
Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s Twitter page continues to be a source of amusement and astonishment. In addition to the fact that he posted information intended to be secret about the location and itinerary for a Congressional delegation in Baghdad, there are numerous misstatements just on the front page right now. For instance, there are two false [...]
Yes, somebody let Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI-02) near the internet super highway again, where he stumbled upon the Twitter on-ramp to tweet the benefit of the stimulus package: If you know of someone thinking of buying first home, now may be the time.Stimulus incentive is very generous!Up to 8k!Check it out. 2:29 PM Feb 18th [...]
Rep. Peter Hoekstra seems not to have learned the first rule of politics: If you’re already in a hole, stop digging. He’s come out swinging at those who have criticized him for revealing the exact location and itinerary of a Congressional delegation to Baghdad that included him to his Twitter account, posting a PDF file [...]
Eric B. at Michigan Liberal puts the punchline on Peter Hoekstra’s unconstrained Twittering by citing a 2006 op-ed column the Republican legislator wrote for the LA Times about the importance of protecting national security secrets from being released publicly. That column contained statements like this:
With outgoing Michigan GOP chairman Saul Anuzis telling Republicans that they have to get hip and start using social networking technology like Facebook and Twitter, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI-02) seems to be having a difficult time finding the spellcheck on his Twitter account. Glenn Thrush writes at Politico:
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