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.
As Michigan’s ongoing budget saga continues, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop now says he will forward the six remaining departmental budget bills to Gov. Jennifer Granholm sometime next week, which he says is “plenty of time for her to make her decisions.” The governor has already signed nine of the 15 budget bills, but Bishop has withheld the other six, including the most controversial ones, through a procedural trick, hoping to keep up the pressure on Granholm not to veto them.
Granholm has pledged to use the line-item veto to force the Republican-led Senate to meet her halfway and reduce some of the budget cuts by raising revenue, something Bishop remains resolutely opposed to doing. We are now halfway through the 30-day continuing budget and it is looking less and less likely that there will be a resolution before the Oct. 31 deadline.
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