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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is getting poor marks from a large majority of likely voters in a new poll.
The survey conducted by EPIC-MRA shows 63 percent of respondents gave Granholm negative marks about the job she’s doing. This is nearly a record disapproval rating for Granholm: 66 percent disapproved in June 2007.
Sixty-nine percent said Michigan was on the wrong track, more than the 54 percent who said the same of the country being headed in the wrong direction.
President Obama has a 54 percent approval rating, which is less than the 57 percent of Michigan’s vote he won in the election.
The survey of 600 likely voters was taken 19-22 and has a margin of error of 4 percent.
(Justin Miller is a political journalist based in Wayne County who has worked for Real Clear Politics, blogged for The Atlantic and covered the 2008 elections in Ohio for The New York Observer’s Politicker.com network of state politics news sites.)
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