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 Detroit News on Friday published a commentary by Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard News Service about hydrofracking that contained a couple of easily falsified claims. Addressing the issue of contamination by fracking liquids he writes:
In commentary last night Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert points out that the U.S. as a whole is in worse financial shape than Benton Harbor — why not appoint a national Emergency Manager?
The Fremont, Michigan-based American Decency Association is calling on its members to pressure Fox News to remove what it considers to be indecent material on the conservative news organization’s website.
The Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Melzer will be on the Craig Fahle show on WDET radio at 11:20 this morning discussing the Calhoun county oil spill. You can listen to the show live by clicking here or get the podcast archive later by clicking here.
The Michigan Messenger is proud to announce the launching of a new sister site, the North Carolina Independent. NCI will be a page on the recently launched American Independent and will feature original news reporting from the Tar Heel state. David Bennahum, President and CEO of the American Independent News Network, which includes the Michigan […]
Jason Stverak, President of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national leading organization on nonprofit journalism, has issued a statement harshly criticizing a proposal by State. Sen Bruce Patterson (R-Canton) to set up a licensing and registration scheme for journalists in the state of Michigan. The statement says:
That talk by Erik Prince at the Tulip Festival has been declared off limits to the press at his demand, the Holland Sentinel says, provoking a good deal of anger both from media outlets wishing to cover the event and by local officials and residents who say this request is unprecedented in the long history […]
The Detroit News editorial team on Sunday called for President Obama to name someone “open-minded” to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, a phrase that is as meaningless as it is cliche`. The editorial never defines how one tells whether a justice is “open-minded” or not, of course, and it offers little […]
The Detroit Free Press has an article about the arrests of members of the Hutaree Christian militia that contains several inaccuracies. First, the article seems to imply that the Hutaree were motivated by racism by generalizing about all “extremist” groups and the increase in such groups after the election of Barack Obama as president:
Last year State Rep. Dan Scripps (D-Leland) introduced legislation that states that Michigan groundwater should be held in public trust and managed for the good of all. The legislation was spurred by concerns that current law allows for the mining and export of groundwater. Though the recently enacted Great Lakes Compact bans most out of […]
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