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.
Jocelyn Benson, a Harvard-educated law professor at Wayne State University and nationally recognized expert on election law, has announced that she is running for the Democratic nomination to succeed Republican Terri Lynn Land as Michigan’s next secretary of state. She will be making a tour of the state Tuesday and Wednesday to go public with her campaign.
Benson has an impressive resume, having received a master’s degree from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar, then graduating from Harvard Law School. For the past few years she has been the leader of the Democratic Party’s election protection efforts around the country. She previously served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, where she worked on voting rights issues.
Her run for office coincides with the publishing of her new book, Democracy and the State Secretary of State. Her website says the book “highlights best practices of Secretaries from throughout the country and seeks to inform voters about how Secretaries of State from either side of the political spectrum can work to advance democracy and election reform.”
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