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.
The Michigan Board of Canvassers approved language for a ballot referendum that would lower car insurance rates in the state for good drivers and prohibit insurance companies from unjustifiably dropping customers from their rolls.
This is only the first step to getting on the ballot. Now the group advocating the proposal, a coalition called Fair and Accountable Insurance Rates, has to collect 304,000 valid voter signatures to get approval for a vote in November 2010.
You can bet that if this gets on the ballot next year, the insurance companies will pull out all the stops to keep it from being approved. That might still be a difficult thing to achieve and the Detroit News cites an industry rep saying it would be “tough to fight” such a referendum.
If you’re going to put a 20 percent cut in insurance rates on the ballot, it’s difficult to imagine a majority of the people voting against it.
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