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.
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 […]
Posting here at the Michigan Messenger will be light over the holiday weekend, as our staff celebrates Christmas with their friends and family. We’ll be back Tuesday morning, and until then, we’d like to wish all of our loyal readers a very Merry Christmas.
Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood will be appearing on the Jack Ebling Show on 1320 AM WILS at 5:20 p.m. and on Lansing Online News Radio on WLNZ 89.7 FM at 7 p.m. Heywood will be discussing Michigan Messenger reporting on the Calhoun county oil spill and the ongoing clean up efforts. Both shows are streamed […]
The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood received a special tribute last week from the Michigan State Legislature for helping the Michigan State Police find and arrest Adrian Hill, a fugitive with a violent history and a conviction for a sex offense with a minor who had eluded law enforcement for three years. The story is part […]
This weekend’s swing through Michigan by the Tea Party Express left many indelible images. Like nearly all the tea party gatherings around the country, protesters brought a wide variety of homemade signs to express their views. We leave it to our readers to express their own views on those views. All of the pictures below […]
Michigan Messenger’s state editor, Ed Brayton, was on the Rachel Maddow show on Monday night to discuss the FBI raid and arrests of nine members of the Hutaree militia in southeast Michigan. Here is the video of that appearance.
On the Rachel Maddow show last, Rachel mentioned Eartha Melzer’s article that showed that there are no facilities that perform abortions in Rep. Stupak’s district. Video below the fold.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Michigan Messenger and a coalition of partners representing media and open government appealed a decision by the Michigan Department of Community Health to deny access to information relating to H1N1 expenditures in 2009. As Michigan Messenger reported Tuesday, MDCH officials refused to identify which private groups received items which were purchased by […]
Michigan Messenger editor Ed Brayton is quoted extensively in an article on the Huffington Post about the recent shenanigans in Texas where the State Board of Education has been rewriting history and the social studies standards for the state at the same time. The school board last week actually removed Thomas Jefferson — who played […]
Michigan Messenger editor Ed Brayton was on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC last night talking about Rep. Bart Stupak, his associations with “The Family” and his stance on abortion and health care reform. Here’s the video:
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