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.
LANSING — A tense encounter in a state Capitol elevator between two state senators, Detroit Democrat Irma Clark-Coleman and Saginaw Republican Roger Kahn, has sparked calls for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, a Rochester Republican, to censure Kahn.
Clark-Coleman, 72, alleges that Kahn, 64, had a confrontation following Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearings in which the Michigan Department of Community Health budget was slashed. Clark-Coleman said the cuts would hurt her district on Detroit’s west side, and threaten public safety and access to health care. During the confrontation, Clark-Coleman alleged Kahn demonstrated “petulant and violent” behavior.
Clark-Coleman, according to The Associated Press, wrote Bishop to detail the incident, where she said Khan “rushed at me as if he were going to strike me in the face.” State Sen. John Pappageorge, a Republican from Troy, stopped Kahn, according to the AP.
Kahn, for his part, told the AP that Clark-Coleman’s accusations are not accurate.
“That’s it. I was on one side of elevator and she was on the other. … That’s all I have to say about it. I don’t think a lot is to be gained by dignifying these baseless accusations.”
Clark-Coleman said she was prepared to address the issue in a floor speech, but on Thursday, Republicans closed the session before she was allowed to do so.
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