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.
Former U.S. Congressman Joe Schwarz will not run as an independent for governor, the Associate Press reports.
Schwarz is a former Republican who left the party because it no longer fit his moderate views.
He tells the AP he won’t run because he is unable to raise the necessary money. He had said it would cost about $200,000 to collect the 30,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot by July 15.
Schwarz said it would be “foolish to persist.”
That leaves a field of five Republicans — Attorney General Mike Cox, Congressman Pete Hoekstra, Ann Arbor Businessman Rick Snyder, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and State Sen. Tom George — and two Democrats — Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and House Speaker Andy Dillon — vying for the governor’s office. The office will be vacated in January by Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat who is term limited.
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