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.
Forbes Magazine has ranked the Pure Michigan campaign, an ad campaign designed to boost the Michigan economy by encouraging tourists to vacation in the state, as one of the ten best tourism campaigns of all time. The ad campaign, launched in 2006, has been featured in TV and radio commercials during a huge ad blitz over the last few months.
The Pure Michigan campaign came under serious criticism when it was rolled out. One commenter called it “lackluster and unoriginal,” while a writer from the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press a few weeks ago to call it “pure torture.”
Despite those criticisms, the campaign has worked. One review found that for every dollar spent on the campaign, forty dollars came to the state and adds nearly three dollars to state revenue. The Travel Industry Association of America also gave the campaign its top award in 2007.
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