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.
A brief government shutdown ended at 2:30 a.m. after the Michigan Senate finally released a continuing resolution to keep the state government running for the next 30 days while lawmakers continue to work on reaching an agreement on a final budget. The continuing resolution had actually been passed by the Senate last Friday, but they had not done what is called an “immediate effect” vote until nearly two hours after the midnight deadline had passed.
Shortly after midnight, the Senate went through a series of budget bills, including the continuing resolution, took the immediate effect vote and then had one member, Sen. Alan Cropsey, call for a motion to reconsider. That move froze the legislature’s action until it was released around 2 a.m., sending the bill to the governor for her signature just before 2:30 a.m. The state now has a 30-day reprieve during which time a bitterly divided legislature still must reach an agreement on a permanent budget for the next year.
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