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.
In a straw poll of Republican activists at the annual Mackinac Island conference, venture capitalist Rick Snyder scored an upset victory over candidates with much higher name recognition. Snyder received a commanding 31 percent of the votes, while Attorney General Mike Cox got 24.1 percent and Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard got 24 percent. Rep. Pete Hoekstra was at 17.6% and State Sen. Tom George came in last place at 3.3%.
These figures should be taken with a rather large hunk of salt. These are Republican activists, not rank and file voters. In polls of voters around the state, Snyder is running well behind Cox and Hoekstra. Snyder does not have nearly the name recognition of the other candidates because he has not served in public office.
The poll also found Judge Bill Schuette getting much greater support to be the next attorney general over Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop. Schuette got support from 57.5 percent of the activists at Mackinac; Bishop received 36.8 percent.
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