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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm spent Wednesday pounding the pavement in the nation’s capitol seeking extensions to unemployment and additional Medicaid funding. Neither ended up materializing.
Granholm was looking for Congress to approve $514 million in Medicaid funding, which will shore up the coming state budget; without it, Medicaid reimbursements will likely be chopped.
And that brings us to her quote to Peter Luke over at MLive.com:
“There are those who simply say that state government must cut more,” Granholm said Wednesday from Washington, where she lobbied for the funding. “But after nine straight years of job loss and budget deficits, the only things left to cut in Michigan are the critical services that struggling families count on to survive in this tough economy.”
The “those” she is referring to are without a doubt Senate Republicans and the House GOP caucus. Both groups were able to score a cuts only budget last October, and have been agitating for the same this year.
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