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.
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson decided, for some odd reason, to join an already crowded field of contenders seeking the Republican nomination to be Michigan’s next secretary of state. Several months after several more prominent candidates — state Sen. Michelle McManus, state Sen. Cameron Brown, state Rep. Paul Scott and Calhoun County Clerk Anne Norlander — got into the race, Johnson is throwing her hat in less than three and a half months before the primary. She tells the Free Press:
Johnson, 55, of Holly said she’s running because she feels the integrity of elections is under attack from special interests who support things like allowing voters to register the same day as elections.
“They also don’t want voters to have to show identification at polls and that’s something I worked very hard for,” she said.
Which is pretty much the exact same platform all the other candidates are running on. And at least two of those candidates have raised more than a hundred thousand dollars for the race, while Johnson has raised none. A baffling decision by any measure.
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