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.
Democratic Secretary of State candidate Jocelyn Benson is challenging her fellow candidates to join her in pledging not to co-chair any campaigns or endorse any candidates in elections for which they could serve as the final certifier of results.
In an announcement today Benson said that this “Oath of Nonpartisanship” is intended to give Michigan citizens confidence that the top election administrator is neutral and nonpartisan and that elections are clean, honest and fair.
Benson also reaffirmed her support for allowing early in-person voting and no reason absentee voting.
Also, while other candidates seeking to be Michigan’s next Secretary of State have stated their opposition to early voting – including one who just recently launched an online petition to call for the “rejection” of early in-person voting in Michigan – I believe our government works best when as many people as possible are able to take the time to vote.
For that reason, I stand by the many clerks throughout the state of Michigan who on a nonpartisan basis recognize the need to modernize our voting system to allow for in-person early voting, just as has been done in dozens of other states throughout our country.
When I hear facts, like the recent Michigan League of Women Voters poll that showed 70 percent of Michigan voters support efforts to make voting more convenient, I am energized to work even harder to ensure that Michigan citizens enjoy the same types of access to voting that citizens enjoy in our neighboring states.
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson, a Republican candidate for Secretary of State, recently launched a petition in opposition to early voting. The petition alleges that early voting will make the election system vulnerable to fraud and that it would not be implemented equally around the state.
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