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.
Michigan Republicans are very excited. Now that the presidential primary has been moved up to January 15th, their biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference is shaping up to be biggest and most star-packed conference ever.
All of the top GOP presidential candidates are expected here at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island this weekend. Republican party leaders from across the state will strategize, conduct straw polls, and attend forums like, "Energy Realism for the Public Policy Debate," and "Can the Reagan Coalition Be Preserved?"
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Congressman Duncan Hunter will address the crowd over dinner this evening.
With the state budget stalemate stretching into the weekend, tax issues are prominent here. Anti-tax activists are distributing T-shirts and literature, and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, is expected to lead a workshop on tax policy tomorrow afternoon.
(Photo: Party members dig in to BBQ fixings at a kick-off reception sponsored by Attorney General Mike Cox and Keith Butler.)
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Grand Hotel, where Republicans will meet this weekend.
Attorney General Mike Cox is supporting Keith Butler for Republican National Committeeman. Butler is the only candidate for this position. Longtime committeeman, Chuck Yob, dropped out of consideration shortly after Butler announced his candidacy. "He knocked out the King in three days!" Cox said of Butler.
According to this historic marker, Republican party unity achieved at a meeting here in 1943 led to the creation of the U.N. and NATO.
Leslie Little, chair of the Central Michigan University College Republicans, shows off her T-shirt as she checks out some Ron Paul literature. Little said that she'd like to see Condoleeza Rice as Vice President. "I'd love her, she's a smart, strong, Republican woman."
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