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.
Sen. Hillary Clinton came to Michigan Wednesday and publicly urged Sen. Barack Obama to get on board plans for a proposed do-over Democratic primary.
Clinton visited the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees building in downtown Detroit in a last-minute appearance designed to pressure Obama and state lawmakers who have said they don’t think the do-over proposal, which calls for a privately funded state-run primary on June 3, can or should pass the Legislature.
“I believe the families of Michigan are just as important as the families of any of any other state,” The Detroit News quoted Clinton saying during her visit.
Obama’s Michigan co-chairs, Sens. Tupac Hunter and Buzz Thomas, D-Detroit, have both expressed strong reservations about the proposal; Hunter on Tuesday called it “half-baked.” Their colleagues have said they will not support a proposal unless it has the support of both candidates.
The proposal would likely need to pass by the end of the day Thursday, when lawmakers depart for their spring break. The News on Wednesday reported that a group of uncommitted Michigan Democratic leaders, including Sen. Carl Levin, were reaching out to legislators that morning to pressure them to pass the measure.
The do-over effort is being sought because the national Democratic Party is refusing to seat the delegates elected in Michigan’s Jan. 15 presidential primary at the party’s national convention in August. The party objected to both Michigan and Florida moving up their primaries from February. Now it appears that neither Clinton nor Obama may have enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination without delegates from the two states. Florida appears to have ruled out a new primary, but several plans are still circulating in Michigan.
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