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 poll released yesterday spells bad news for President Barack Obama and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
According to an Associated Press story published earlier today, an EPIC-MRA phone survey conducted last week indicates that the new Democratic president is mildly unpopular in Michigan — a state he won by a whopping 16 point spread last year — while the state’s two-term Democratic governor is overwhelmingly unpopular.
From the AP story:
Fifty-five percent of 600 likely voters surveyed statewide give the Democratic president a negative job rating, with 44 percent saying he’s doing a good job, according to EPIC-MRA of Lansing. Just under half — 49 percent — have a favorable opinion of Obama, while 45 percent have an unfavorable opinion.
The numbers are worse for Granholm. Seventy percent give the seven-year Democratic governor a negative job rating, with 29 percent positive. Forty-one percent have a favorable opinion of her, with 55 percent unfavorable.
The poll’s margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points.
I can’t help but wonder if the state’s sour economy is what the poll’s respondents really have in mind here. Maybe Granholm and Obama are mostly just victims of forces totally beyond their control? Or perhaps neither has been creative enough to break through despite the economic doom and gloom?
Either way, I suspect these new numbers will give Lt. Gov. John Cherry a splash of (very cold) comfort.
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