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.
The Michigan Court of Appeals Friday released an opinion ordering Bay County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Cass Barnes be listed as an incumbent on the upcoming judicial election ballot.
The court found Cass Barnes was entitled to the listing because of both state law and the state Constitution which mandate judges who are incumbents be listed as such on judicial ballots.
But opponents of Cass Barnes said she did not qualify for the ballot title because she circulate petitions for the post as a non-incumbent.
However, the Appeals Court panel of Judges Peter D. O’Connell, Donald S. Owens and Stephen L. Borrello found that because the law and the Constitution both used the word “shall” and provided no time frame to qualify as an incumbent, Cass Barnes was an incumbent.
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