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.
The Michigan Republican Party decided last weekend to hold a primary between the dates of Feb. 28, when there is already a scheduled state election day, and March 6, the day known as Super Tuesday in election years. In the process, they risk being punished by the national party.
Rep. Thad McCotter’s long-shot run for the Republican presidential nomination is looking even longer after he took dead last in the Iowa straw poll over the weekend. A total of 16,892 people cast votes and these are the full results:
While the Michigan Democratic Party announced this week that it would hold a caucus rather than a primary to select delegates for the Democratic National Convention in 2012, but the state GOP is apparently leaning toward holding a traditional primary.
Appearing as part of an Iowa bus tour launched by national religious conservatives, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told Iowans Thursday that fiscal and social issues aren’t separable.
Thaddeus McCotter praised grassroots activists in Iowa, saying his own “most fulfilling and rewarding” political position was when he was elected as a precinct delegate in his own neighborhood in the 1980s. He believes history has been changed, and will be changed again, on the shoulders of average Americans.
A recent survey from Public Policy Polling shows Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) has very little support in his long-shot run for president, even in his home state.
Former 7th Congressional District Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) announced Wednesday he will not run for Congress in 2012.
The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday announced it was unleashing robocall messages to voters in every Congressional district in Michigan being held by a Republican.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney raised more money in Michigan between April and June than did President Barack Obama.
A new poll from EPIC-MRA has found that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, holds a slight lead over President Barack Obama in the state in next year’s presidential election.
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