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.
State Rep. Justin Amash, considered one of the most conservative members of the Michigan legislature in only his first term, announced on Tuesday that he was going to mount a primary challenge to Republican incumbent Vern Ehlers in the U.S. House of Representatives. But Ehlers may not even run for reelection and has scheduled a news conference on Wednesday in Grand Rapids to address the question of whether he will run for a 10th term. Politico reports:
On the same day a conservative state legislator and Tea Party favorite announced a primary bid against Ehlers, the nine-term lawmaker’s office issued a statement saying he would “address questions about his future plans as a Member of Congress” on Wednesday morning.
Ehlers, first elected in a 1993 special election to the GOP-leaning 3rd District, hadn’t previously indicated whether he intends to run for another term in 2010.
But speculation swirled among Republican aides Tuesday about the 76-year-old lawmaker’s plans. Ehlers’s wife, Johanna, suffered a heart attack last week, leading some officials to believe he might retire soon. But one of the congressman’s colleagues said that Ehlers hasn’t signaled a retirement decision and noted that the congressman’s wife has already been released from the hospital.
If Ehlers does decide to run again, this should be a very interesting matchup of a hard right-wing challenger against a more mainstream Republican incumbent.
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