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.
One of the things Gov. Granholm proposed in her State of the State speech was to restore the funding for the award winning Pure Michigan ad campaign. As if on cue, a new study commissioned by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation has concluded that the campaign drove half a billion dollars worth of economic activity into the state. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A new study shows the acclaimed Pure Michigan television ad campaign, with the voice of actor Tim Allen, lured two million visitors from around the U.S. and Ontario to Michigan last year, and they spent $500 million in the state.
Of those travelers, 680,000 came from outside the Great Lakes region, according to the survey by Longwoods International, a Toronto-based tourism research firm.
The study is a lobbying boost for Michigan’s tourism industry, which hopes to convince state lawmakers to restore $30 million for the award-winning ad campaign, the same amount spent last year. Funding has dwindled to $5.4 million this year because of the state budget shortages.
But some lawmakers are reluctant to spend money on tourism ads when the state faces a $1.7-billion deficit next fiscal year.
That reluctance is, as the old saying goes, penny wise and pound foolish.
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