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.
As everyone not living in a cave in outer Mongolia by now knows, Barack Obama picked Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate. Ed Brayton shares some initial thoughts on this choice, both politically and intellectually…
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.
Iiiiiiiit’s Biden! Barack Obama notified his supporters at about 3 a.m. Saturday that Senate colleague Joe Biden of Delaware was his pick to be vice president. The middle-of-the-night notice came a few hours after the word began to leak out through other channels, which the Obama campaign had managed to keep securely dammed all week.
Despite speculation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will name Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh as his vice presidential nominee on Wednesday, when Michigan Messenger asked a highly placed source in the Obama campaign about the possibility, the source was visibly surprised about the information. “I don’t know anything about that,” the source said. “I have not [...]
The winner of the Michigan Republican primary does nothing to squelch VP conjecture Enthusiastic McCain volunteers greeted a crowd of about 200 attendees with handfuls of campaign stickers and piles of yard signs Monday afternoon at the official grand opening of Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s regional headquarters in Farmington Hills, Mich. They had come [...]
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