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.
With all the usual caveats about the accuracy and relevance of polls taken more than a year before an election, it still seems worth noting a new poll that shows Attorney General Mike Cox and Rep. Pete Hoekstra leading a large pack of Republican candidates for governor. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The statewide poll of 600 likely Michigan voters showed that 27% would support Cox in the GOP primary next August, while 23% backed Hoekstra and 15% would vote for Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.
Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder and state Sen. Tom George of Kalamazoo would get 2% each.
The results were released by the political newsletter Inside Michigan Politics and Marketing Resource Group as about 1,800 Republicans prepare to journey to Mackinac Island for a conference this weekend that marks the unofficial start of the 2010 election season.
Perhaps the only thing surprising about these results is the strong showing by Hoekstra, who was generally thought to have less recognition outside of his base on the West side of the state than Cox. But his name has been all over the news since he announced his nomination a few months ago thanks to controversies over relocating detainees from Guantanamo Bay and CIA torture.
On the Democratic side, unsurprisingly, Lt. Gov. John Cherry had a commanding lead over his two announced opponents, state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith and former state Rep. John Freeman. Cherry was the choice of 40 percent of Democratic voters, while Smith and Freeman came in at 8 percent and 9 percent respectively.
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