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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Posts Tagged Voter Disenfranchisement

Conyers open to hearings on ACORN accusations

By Ed Brayton | 03.23.09 | 6:42 am

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, says he may hold hearings on accusations made by a former employee of ACORN that the organization had broken the law in a number of ways. The Washington Times reports:

Obama lawyers defend ‘vote fraud’ efforts

By Jonathan E. Kaplan | 11.01.08 | 5:09 pm

While bloggers worry, campaign says GOP suppression efforts are failing

Sec. of State loses on purged voters

By Eartha Jane Melzer | 10.30.08 | 9:59 pm

Court says risk of fraud is ‘miniscule’

The BBC looks into voter suppression in Michigan

By Mark Maynard | 10.16.08 | 3:09 pm

It, of course, isn’t something that our mainstream press would talk about here in the United States, but the BBC TV program Newsnight recently ran an investigative report by Greg Palast on the likelihood that our upcoming election is going to be stolen. The report includes the following quote from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Behind McCain’s ACORN gambit

By Jonathan E. Kaplan | 10.16.08 | 12:37 pm

The fraud of voter ‘fraud’

Terri Lynn Land’s office punches back at NYT, voter purge finding

By Todd Spencer | 10.10.08 | 6:34 am

State says it purged only a third of the voters the Gray Lady says it did in August. So how come the snapshots of the rolls the Times says it took are missing 22,000 names Land’s office says it didn’t purge?

Possible Republican voter fraud under investigation

By Ed Brayton | 10.05.08 | 10:59 pm

Authorities are looking into disposal of voter registrations completed by Democratic voters

House Judiciary Committee hearing examines voter suppression — watch it live

By Eartha Jane Melzer | 09.24.08 | 10:08 am

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 [...]

Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses ‘voter foreclosure’ on Democracy Now!

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 09.19.08 | 10:11 am

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 [...]