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.
A very interesting, but not unexpected, development in this fall’s Supreme Court elections as Justice Elizabeth Weaver has decided to run for reelection to her own seat as an independent rather than as a Republican. She was the Republican nominee in 1994 and 2002 but has had a long-running feud on the court with her fellow Republicans, the more conservative Justices Maura Corrigan and Robert Young. The Detroit Free Press reports.
That feud has gotten so nasty that Young declared that with two seats up for election on the court this year, the GOP could nominate him or Weaver — but not both of them.
State Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Weaver filed Wednesday to seek re-election in November as an Independent. Weaver, a critic of Michigan’s partisan nominating system for electing nonpartisan judges, said she will skip the nominating process.
“I need no nomination of any political party to be on the ballot and seek none,” she said in a statement. “It is that independent-thinking judge that is the most highly valued member of any court, state or federal.”
This move allows the Michigan GOP to nominate Young for his own seat and another candidate to run against Weaver for her seat, which changes the dynamic of the Supreme Court races considerably.
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