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 new poll shows Attorney General Mike Cox and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra in a very close battle for the Republican nomination for governor, with Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder not far behind. The survey, done for WZZM-13 TV, has Cox at 26.4 percent, Hoekstra at 25.6 percent and Snyder at 20.2 percent.
The poll had other revealing numbers in it as well. Regionally, Hoekstra has a commanding lead in West Michigan with 41.7 percent of the vote; Snyder is second in that part of the state with only 16.5 percent.Cox holds a strong lead in Macomb and Wayne counties, but Bouchard leads in his native Oakland county.
Perhaps most revealing are the favorable/unfavorable ratings of the candidates. Cox has the highest unfavorable ratings by far, with more than 25 percent saying they view him unfavorably; no other candidate is above 11 percent.
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