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.
Or at least get a link to the investigative work of my counterpart, Laura McGann, from Michigan Messenger’s sister site, The Washington Independent. McGann’s been slaving away for the last week in the recesses of Alaska, doing the vetting that the McCain campaign team clearly did not do on vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. [...]
As America is getting to know the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, a disconcerting undercurrent has begun to surface about her “family values.” We know Palin is anti-choice (even in the case of rape or incest, and Alaska has the highest incidence of incest in the country), but now it is coming out that her [...]
Michigan Messenger queried voters yesterday in Oakland Mall in Troy, Mich. about their opinions of Sen. John McCain’s VP pick Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
I love that YouTube allows Americans an opportunity to expose the world to new comic concepts. And the appointment of Gov. Sarah Palin as the GOP’s VP choice has been a boon. I’ve taken the liberty of sharing with you three of my favorite Palin-inspired videos which have appeared over the last couple of days.
This is from a speech that Sarah Palin gave to a bunch of high school kids at her church a few months ago (see video here):
Dan Balz of The Washington Post writes that McCain talked with Palin by phone the Sunday before last, did not actually meet her in person until Wednesday morning last week, and chose her only this past Thursday.
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