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.
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice shines the spotlight on a range of new state laws that make it more difficult to vote, particularly for poor and minority voters.
Election Protection is reporting that wait times have reached five hours at some precincts in Detroit where lines grew to more than 1,000 people at Beth Eden Baptist Church. They said this was largely due to lack of staffing at the polling place.
From Channel 4 News in Detroit: Voters in Redford Township are being warned against phony phone calls that are going out saying polling locations in the township have been changed. Redford Township Clerk Garth Christie said no voting locations have been changed and anyone who receives a call should contact the Redford Township Police Department [...]
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, voting-rights activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came out in the pages of Rolling Stone and said unequivocally that the election had been stolen. “Republicans,” Kennedy said, “prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John [...]
Andrew Sullivan, senior editor of “The Atlantic,” during his October 19 appearance on The Chris Matthews Show, had the following to say about the voter-registration group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the McCain campaign’s attacks on it:
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.
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