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.
As the state board of canvassers prepare to certify the results of the 1st Congressional District Republican primary today it appears that Crystal Falls surgeon Dan Benishek’s margin of victory over State Sen. Jason Allen (R-Alanson) has expanded from one to 15 votes.
The 31 county boards of canvassers in Dist. 1 finalized their vote totals on Thursday, the Traverse City Record Eagle reports, and Allen will have until Monday to decide whether to request a recount after the vote totals are certified today.
“Over the next 48 hours we’ll be sitting down and reviewing all of the options we have to us, from asking for a recount, to a partial recount, to doing nothing,” said Allen, who moved from Traverse City to Alanson to run for Congress. “We’ll make a decision based on our statistical analysis of the votes.”
Both candidates agreed the longer the process takes, the bigger the disadvantage to the eventual winner.
“Anything that takes away focus from the general (election) is bad,” Benishek said. “You only have about 90 days to the general election. It’s … time and money wasted on a recount, where we could instead be campaigning.”
Benishek was the first Republican to enter the race for the Dist. 1 Congressional seat that has been held by Bart Stupak of Menominee since 1993. He toured the regions Tea Party events as part of his campaign and presents himself as a political outsider.
Allen, who is term limited in the state Senate, moved into Dist. 1 in April immediately before declaring his candidacy.
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