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.
In an opinion that voting rights advocates are celebrating as a victory for election transparency, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has stated that voted ballots are public documents subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
“A person must be allowed to inspect or examine voted ballots, which are not traceable to the individual voter, and to receive copies of the ballots upon request subject to reasonable restrictions prescribed by the Secretary of State,” Cox wrote in a May 13 opinion issued in response to questions by State Sen. Patty Birkholz (R-Saugatuck Township).
The Michigan Election Reform Alliance has attempted to manually audit some Michigan elections but has been prevented from reviewing voted ballots in Allegan County.
In a statement Jan BenDor of the Michigan Election Reform Alliance called Cox’s opinion an “historic result of MERA’s work to conduct citizen vote count audits in Allegan County and elsewhere in Michigan.”
“Most of our FOIAs had been denied,” she said, “even after appeal to the local jurisdiction legislative body.”
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