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.
In February, Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order requiring that those seeking permits for new coal plants consider whether coal plants are the “most feasible and prudent” way to meet the state’s power needs. In March Attorney General Mike Cox responded with an opinion stating that the governor did not have the legal authority to issue such an order. Also, a group of 72 legislators — including Democratic House Speaker Andy Dillon — wrote to the governor protesting that her order amounted to a moratorium on new coal plants. They said the order would renege “on the promise of thousands of new construction jobs.”
This week the online Great Lakes News Bulletin News Service points out that when issuing his opinion on the governor’s coal order, Cox neglected to mention that he’s received at least $74,400 in contributions from the power industry since 2004.
Mr. Dillon, the top House Democrat, has received regular campaign contributions from utilities for years. But in just a six-month span in the latter half of 2008, he received 92 different, individual campaign contributions from DTE Energy executives, lawyers, and managers. The contributions to Speaker Dillon’s Leadership Fund totaled more than $28,000, and the DTE contributions to him were so frequent that they dominated his campaign reporting records for that period.
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