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.
Monday was the deadline for groups backing citizen-initiated ballot referendums to turn in the requisite number of signatures to put those proposals on the November ballot, but the proponents of three proposed amendments failed in their efforts to collect enough names. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Citizen petition drives to expand casino gaming in Michigan and to give individuals the right to opt out of federal health care regulation failed to meet Monday’s deadline for submitting signatures to put the issues before voters in November.
Backers of two of the proposed constitutional amendments — one to authorize seven new casinos, the other to provide the health care opt-out — had told state election officials they hoped to turn in petitions by the deadline, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land said Friday.
But apparently neither met the threshold of 380,126 signatures of registered voters, spokeswoman Kelly Chesney said Monday evening.
Backers of a third measure, which would have allowed casino gambling at state horse tracks, had given up on their drive last week. That means only two proposals will be on the ballot — a constitutionally-required proposal on whether to open a state convention to rewrite the state constitution, and a legislative proposal to prohibit anyone convicted of certain felony crimes from holding public officer for 20 years.
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