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.
With less than two week to go until the primary election, Rick Snyder and Mike Bouchard are claiming endorsements from two very different Republican celebrities.
Businessman Rick Snyder of Ann Arbor has secured the endorsement of William Milliken, Michigan’s longest serving governor and a widely respected moderate Republican.
Milliken told the Traverse City Record Eagle that Snyder is a “refreshing new presence on the state’s political scene.”
Milliken sees Snyder as less partisan than the rest of the Republican field, a key, he said, to tackling the state’s steep economic problems. Milliken also likes Snyder’s support for helping major Michigan cities like Detroit, and his position on various environmental issues.
“The next governor is going to have to find a way to bring Michigan together,” Milliken said.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, in the news lately for his calls to enact Right-to-Work legislation which would weaken unions, announced that he has the support of Ohio contractor and political activist Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher.
“I am pleased to have “Joe the Plumber’s” endorsement in my race for governor,” Bouchard said in a statement, “He was not afraid to ask President Obama the tough questions and he didn’t hold back when asking what my plans are for Michigan. I explained to him that under a Bouchard administration modeled after my Blueprint for Prosperity, Michigan will once again be prosperous.”
Wurzelbacher was propelled to a brief stardom during the 2008 election when the McCain/Palin presidential team presented him as an icon of the middle class American that would be harmed by tax reforms proposed by Obama.
Snyder and Bouchard are competing against Attorney General Mike Cox, U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, and State Sen. Tom George of Kalamazoo for the Republican nomination in the race for governor.
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