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.
MLive reports that Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, a Democrat, may be willing to accept the full range of budget cuts adopted by the Republican-controlled Senate, including huge cuts in social services and revenue sharing for local communities.
Facing an Oct. 1 deadline to get a state budget in place, Democratic House Speaker Andy Dillon is talking about adopting all $1.2 billion in cuts Senate Republicans passed in June.
The theory is that, in return, the Republican Senate majority would put money back into the budget for items important to Democrats, such as a college scholarship program, early childhood development and local police and firefighters.
It’s unclear if Senate Republicans would go along, since paying for those programs after the new budget takes effect would involve raising revenue, either by ending tax exemptions for certain businesses or increasing taxes or fees.
It’s also unclear whether a majority of House Democrats would go along with Dillon on this either. Some have said publicly that they couldn’t vote for such steep cuts. The worst case scenario is that the divide between the Senate Republicans and the House Democrats results in no budget being passed and another shutdown of the state government on October 1.
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