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 move by the State House Judiciary Committee to seek approval from the entire Democratic-controlled House to use subpoenas to force Attorney General Mike Cox to testify before the committee remains on the floor of the chamber.
“It’s just hanging there,” said Rep. Mark Meadows, the East Lansing Democrat who chairs the committee. “We have drawn up a list of questions about some settlements for the attorney general and he will be given a chance to answer those.”
Meadows and the committee voted this summer to seek subpoena power as it investigated Cox’s distribution of settlement funds without approval of the legislature. Cox came under fire earlier this year when he turned to Republican fundraisers to help him decide where to distribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement money gained in a lawsuit against Countrywide in mortgage cases. That move prompted legislation that will force the attorney general to turn the money from lawsuits over to the state’s general fund, something Cox opposes.
Fueling the battle with Cox is the term-limited attorney general’s announcement he is running for the GOP nomination for governor in 2010.
Asked what would happen if Cox refuses to answer the committee’s questions, Meadows said, “Well then I think that will give [subpoena power] a new life.”
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