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.
A special three-judge panel ruled Friday that Congress acted constitutionally when it extended a provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that blocks several states and local government agencies from changing voting procedures without approval from the Justice Department or the courts, the New York Times reports.
Michigan is one of the states covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which was created to counter discriminatory election practices.
Last year the Justice Department cited this provision when it stopped Republican Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land from closing her agency’s branch office in Saginaw’s Buena Vista township.
“The closure of the Buena Vista office, which is the only branch office in a majority-minority township in the County, will significantly lower minority registration,” acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Grace Chung Becker wrote to Secretary of State officials.
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