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.
Attorney General Mike Cox, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, said Monday that he intends to file a brief in support of the state of Arizona in the lawsuit filed by the federal government to strike down a controversial new immigration law in that state.
It’s not unusual for state attorneys general to file briefs in cases involving other states because those suits often involve legal principles that could apply to actions taken by their own states.
But could this suit be more about political advantage than legal principle? As political observers have noted in previous articles about attempts to adopt a clone of that Arizona law, Republican politicians in the state are clearly looking to harness the current anti-immigrant fervor to score points with party delegates and voters in the primaries.
The legislation adopted in Arizona compels police officers to demand proof of residency or citizenship whenever there is a “reasonable suspicion” that someone might be in the country illegally. Opposition to the law has come not only from civil rights groups and advocates for minorities but also from police organizations, who fear that the law puts police officers in a difficult position in relation to minority communities.
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