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.
There’s no formal Democratic response yet to a plan by a Michigan congressman to resolve the state’s primary delegate dilemma.
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, in a letter Monday to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, suggested the committee split the state’s 83 pledged delegates based on results of Michigan’s Jan. 15 primary and divide the remaining 73 based on the nationwide popular vote.
“I recognized that the DNC feels that both Michigan and Florida knowingly violated party rules in moving up their primary dates, but it seems unfair to punish so many for the actions of a select few,” wrote Stupak, who supported John Edwards before he dropped out of the race.
Michigan and Florida’s decision to move their primaries ahead of their approved dates, against the wishes of the national party, prompted several Democratic presidential candidates, including Sen. Barack Obama, to pull their names from both states’ primary ballot. Sen. Hillary Clinton kept her name on the ballots, but agreed not to campaign in the states. Clinton won 55 percent of the Michigan primary vote, with 40 percent voting for “uncommitted.”
In response the national Democratic Party said it wouldn’t seat Michigan and Florida’s delegates at its summer nominating convention unless the states come up with a plan that meets the party’s rules. In Stupak’s plan, Michigan’s pledged delegates would be chosen at congressional district conventions April 19, with 47 going to Clinton and 36 for the “uncommitted” slot going to Obama. The remaining 73 delegates, including the state’s superdelegates and those to be elected at a state central committee meeting in May, would be split based on each candidate’s share of the popular vote nationwide after the last Democratic primary in June.
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