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 — Immediately following her conviction for allegedly obstructing police in November, Michigan Citizen reporter Diane Bukowski spoke out at the Michigan Campaign for Justice law forum, calling her conviction a “political attack.” Bukowski said police lied to the jury. “Five state troopers committed perjury on the stand in my case,” she told the group [...]
For the second time in a month, a citizen has stormed the Lansing City Council. On Monday night, Lansing resident Barry Shiffer, 42, addressed the council then charged through a gate dividing the audience from the council. In his comments to the council about a drug raid arrest of a friend’s home, Shiffer told the [...]
Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian Bishop from New Hampshire, led an invocation at Sunday’s Inaugural event. The festivities included performances by artists Bono and Bruce Springsteen and was broadcast live on HBO.
Michigan U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow gave a statement on the floor of the Senate last night in support of the bill which would help the auto industry re-organize (video below). The bill failed to pass the Senate, leaving auto industry leaders and Michigan’s elected officials scrambling to put pressure on the Bush Administration to finance [...]
Yes, General Motors has a Facebook page, a Twitter account, multiple blogs and a YouTube channel and they’re using them to convince the public that they need billions of dollars from the government.
With several prominent Republicans balking at passing a rescue package for the auto industry, it is perhaps worth noting that John McCain, during the presidential campaign, came out strongly in favor of such a package. On Good Morning America, he was asked:
Detroit interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. and the new Chief of Police James Barren, along with local community and business leaders held a gathering in the Mack Alter Square shopping center on the far east side at Mack and Outer Drive near Grosse Pointe Tuesday to celebrate the Detroit Police Department’s opening of four police [...]
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