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.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is the latest candidate for statewide office to focus on new ways to protect the state from alleged dangers posed by immigrants.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate announced today that rather than rely on the FBI to check the fingerprints of everyone arrested in the county his office will begin checking a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fingerprint database in an effort to identify arrested immigrants, the Detroit Free Press reports.
“The ability for local law enforcement to run fingerprints against the ICE database is a critical tool in protecting our streets and neighborhoods,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in a prepared statement. “Aliens illegally in our country committing crimes in our communities is unacceptable.”
Other Republican political candidates to take up immigrant related issues this campaign season include state Senators Michelle McManus of Lake Leelanau, Cameron Brown of Sturgis and Jason Allen of Traverse City, who sponsored legislation to require police to question people about their immigration status. This law is patterned on an Arizona bill which is being challenged by the U.S. Justice Dept. McManus and Brown are running for Secretary of State and Allen is running for Congress in Dist. 1.
Bouchard has been a vocal supporter of Arizona-style immigration reform.
The clerk in Oakland County, Ruth Johnson, another Republican candidate for Secretary of State, has focused on the need to keep non-citizens from voting, a phenomenon that is not a problem according to the current Secretary of State.
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