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.
Stateline.org has an article about the effect of term limits in the states that have them and nowhere will the effect be greater than in Michigan. The article begins by talking about the Michigan Senate, where 3/4ths of that chamber will be brand new after the November elections because of term limits:
Gretchen Whitmer was elected to the Michigan Senate just four years ago, but when the next legislative session begins in January, there’s a good chance she will be the chamber’s longest-serving member — the “dean of the Senate,” she says, at age 39.
Whitmer’s remarkable rise can be traced to Michigan’s strict term limits, which allow senators only two four-year terms and are forcing out most of her colleagues this year. Twenty-nine of the Senate’s 38 members are barred from running for reelection, and those who do return next year will have even less Senate experience than Whitmer, who took office after winning a special election in March 2006.
Whitmer still must win reelection in November before she can become the Senate’s senior member. She is confident she knows enough to function in that role. “I work hard,” she says. “I’m a lawyer. I study the issues.” But even the possibility of becoming an elder statesman after just four years, she says, is “stunning.”
In the Michigan House, 34 of 110 representatives will be term-limited out of office in November.
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