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.
Longtime political reporter Jack Lessenbery says Lt. Gov. John Cherry will likely lose the 2010 governor’s race to Attorney General Mike Cox unless Granholm steps away from the governorship soon.
Writing in the Detroit Metro Times, Lessenberry says that Granholm has accomplished nothing as governor and that she is “fundamentally unsuited to govern.”
According to Lessenberry Granholm squandered her political capital by failing to lead after beating Amway guy Dick DeVos by a landslide in 2006, has failed to consider reasonable proposals for cutting the budget deficit, and has backed away from her plan to save money by combining state departments.
… Granholm muffed the whole budget mess two years ago; she provided no, or contradictory, leadership, and exasperated her own party. We ended up with a business tax calculated to drive commerce away, and a second-rate Oakland County politician, state Sen. Mike Bishop, whom she allowed to emerge as her effective equal.
Unless the Obama administration creates a graceful exit for Granholm by appointing her to some federal position Republicans will get the governor’s office, he predicts.
Lieutenant governors lose, period, especially one that serves under a governor who is a failure.
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