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.
Andy Dillon
Michigan Liberal passes on speculation from Two Joes that House Speaker Andy Dillon is going to announce his candidacy soon for the 2010 Democratic nomination to be Michigan’s governor. Color me skeptical.
I know Lt. Gov. John Cherry is not exactly anyone’s dream candidate in the Democratic Party. As Tim Skubick said on my radio show a few months ago, Cherry is the “anti-charisma candidate.” But the last few months have seen Dillon’s stock among Democrats drop like a stone.
It’s difficult to imagine him as a viable candidate in a primary, especially after spending the last few months infuriating traditional Democratic constituencies. His health care reform plan was far more popular with Republicans than it was with Democrats, especially with the unions, who absolutely hated the idea.
And his bungling of the budget negotiations, during which he seemed to operate more as Tattoo to Mike Bishop’s Mr. Rourke than as a Democratic leader, made things even worse. I’ve even had one political insider suggest to me that Dillon was going to make a run at the Republican nomination instead, but I’m even more skeptical of that.
Still, stranger things have happened in the world of Michigan politics. And with the election now only one year away, the silly season has officially begun.
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