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.
Tim Skubick reports that the unlikely and untimely bromance between Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop and Democratic House Speaker Andy Dillon has hit the skids mere weeks after the two managed to ruin any chance of achieving a reasonable and balanced budget for the state of Michigan.
His account almost reads like an episode of “Saved by the Bell”:
For months House Democratic Speaker Andy Dillon and Sen. GOP leader Mike Bishop have walked pretty much arm and arm through a budget writing minefield and for a moment it looked as though they would emerge with their trusting relationship intact.
Forget that.
“It was a breach of an agreement,” reflected odd couple number one as Mr. Dillon noted his buddy Bishop just killed a doctor’s tax that Dillon wanted to fill in the budget holes in the states health care budget for the needy.
Dillon contends that Bishop promised him a “good faith” effort at getting the doc tax through the GOP controlled senate. What Dillon got instead was a quicky up and down vote after only one democrat was allowed to speak in support of a possible compromise on the measure.
It took Dillon almost 90 minutes to pass the tax in the house and Bishop about ten minutes to kiil it in the senate. “I got no notice and no opportunity” to see if the proposal could be reworked Dillon tells the capitol press corps.
“I’m not happy” he noted and asked if his trust in the senator had been shaken, he cryptically responded, “Yes.”…
And who is that over there whispering, “I told ya so?” Why it’s governor Jennifer Granholm who somewhere along the line probably warned Dillon not to trust Big Mike.
This can only end one way: With a sternly worded note passed during study hall.
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