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.
GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
ACORN today urged officials in all states to protect the voting rights of people who fear their eligibility will be challenged because their homes are in foreclosure.
CNN aired an interview with Michigan Messenger reporter Eartha Melzer this morning as part of its reporting on voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
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.
The MTV Choose or Lose project did a report on the ongoing lawsuits and controversies involving voting rights in Michigan and the report includes an interview with the Messenger’s own Minehaha Forman. The report also includes Chuck D and Professor Griff of rap group Public Enemy. Watch the video below the fold:
The Associated Press is reporting that James Carabelli, the chair of the Macomb County Republican Party, is suing the Michigan Messenger and its parent organization, the nonprofit Center for Independent Media (CIM), over the Messenger’s report last month in which Carabelli was quoted as saying the party planned to use lists of foreclosed homeowners as [...]
In the wake of our reporting on Republican plans to challenge voters whose homes are in foreclosure, officials in Ohio and Maryland have issued advisories clarifying what people in foreclosure should expect at the polls. But Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has refused to address any questions on the matter. Here’s one possible explanation: [...]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced legislation today to bar political parties from challenging the eligibility of voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
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