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The Washington, D.C.–based Center for Public Integrity salutes MnIndy’s parent nonprofit, the Center for Independent Media, and the Minneapolis-based citizen videoblogging outlet The UpTake in its “Top 10 Website of 2008″ list today. Citing media “from projects to blogs to websites that help keep our country transparent,” the investigative journalism organization named the entire six-site CIM network, but specifically applauded our sister site in Michigan.

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 non-profit Center for Independent Media, over the Messenger’s report last month in which Carabelli was quoted as saying the party planned to use lists of foreclosed [...]

The Minnesota Republican Party has no plans to use lists of recent home foreclosures to challenge voters on election day, according to party officials. Earlier this month, our sister site, the Michigan Messenger, reported that local Republican party officials intended to utilize such lists in order to strike voters from the rolls. “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, told reporter Eartha Jane Melzer.

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court over the Michigan Republican Party’s plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, as first reported by our sister site the Michigan Messenger.
Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, and Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan [...]

By Eartha Jane Melzer at our sister site, The Michigan Messenger

The U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology is investigating allegations that the nation’s top public-health agency has blocked publication of a study that links industrial contaminants to cancer and increased infant mortality in the Great Lakes states.

In 2001, the International Joint Commission, a [...]

A private security firm that has been raking in government contracts in Iraq and got $10 million in tax abatements to set up shop in Michigan is headed by a CEO who appears to be lying about his service record, our sister site Michigan Messenger reports.

Sovereign Deed founder Barrett Moore “served as an intelligence officer [...]

The Caucus Fracas is getting more confusing every day, and once more the Center For Independent Media websites have the latest.

From Michigan Messenger we see the battle with Iowa is getting heated, as many of the Democratic candidates begin pulling out of the Michigan primary.

The story grows at Iowa Independent, as the exodus continues.  The [...]

From Iowa Independent, Fred Thompson visits the Iowa Christian Alliance Annual dinner.

Meanwhile, Michigan Messenger reports from the GOP presidential forum on Mackinaw Island.  Coverage of the event can be found here, here, and here.

And Colorado Confidential reports on huge instances of teen pregnancy in the state.

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Iowa Independent

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