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.
Republican Mike Raines and his wife Laurie are under investigation by the Michigan State Police for allegedly stealing the campaign signs of Raines’ primary opponent Tom Reich. In addition to the MSP investigation, by-the-book, tough-as-nails Eaton county prosecutor Jeff Sauter said he would ask Attorney General Mike Cox to appoint a special prosecutor to review the case. Cox and Sauter are both Republicans.
Stealing campaign signs is a misdemeanor in Michigan.
Confirmed by a story on the Lansing State Journal Web site, Reich, 53, began staking out locations where he had posted his signs because he had lost 150 of them in the past couple of weeks. Last night, at about 10:30 p.m., Reich said he observed Laurie Raines bent over one of his signs, as if removing it, and he later saw Mike Raines drive away in a van.
The Michigan State Police officer who responded to the call from Reich reported he did not see Reich’s signs in the Raines’ van.
Whoever wins the primary tonight between Reich and Raines will go on to be sheriff in November, as there is no Democratic challenger.
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