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.
During the one and only debate between the two candidates for Secretary of State, Democrat Jocelyn Benson and Republican Ruth Johnson, a story that the Michigan Messenger broke more than two years ago was a hot issue of contention. In September, 2008, the Messenger’s Eartha Melzer reported, based on direct statements from the chairman of [...]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced legislation today to bar political parties from challenging the eligibility of voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on Elections are holding a joint hearing this morning on federal, state and local efforts to prepare for the 2008 Election. You can watch live via webcast (using RealPlayer’s free software) as government officials, election law experts and civil [...]
Michigan Messenger’s investigative reporting, “Lose your house, lose your vote,” was the topic of discussion yesterday with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! You can catch the interview with our team members Eartha Jane Melzer and Jeff Morley at this link. Disenfranchisement of “foreclosure voters” came up earlier in the week on Democracy Now! as well, in [...]
A group of 14 U.S. senators including Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama signed a letter to the United States Department of Justice and specifically to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asking him to calm fears that people who have undergone or are undergoing a foreclosure will not be allowed to vote. All of the senators who [...]
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