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.
The latest Epic/MRA poll for the November election contains more bad news for Democratic candidate Virg Bernero. Republican Rick Snyder’s lead has widened slightly since the first poll taken shortly after the August primaries and the number of undecided voters dropped by about one-fourth.
Snyder leads Bernero 53 percent to 29 percent, while the number of undecided voters has dropped from 20 percent to 15 percent. That means even if all of the undecided voters broke for Bernero, Snyder still wins by a comfortable margin. And Snyder’s lead among the all-important independent voters is an astonishing 53-15.
The poll results for other key state races also favors Republicans, but the leads there are not so insurmountable. Republican Bill Schuette leads Democrat David Leyton by a 39 to 25 percent margin in the race for Attorney General, but 31 percent of voters are still undecided in that race.
Republican Ruth Johnson likewise leads her Democratic rival Jocelyn Benson in the race for Secretary of State 31 percent to 25 percent, but 39 percent of voters are still undecided in that race.
The four candidates in those last two races are still virtually unknown to voters. Less than a quarter of voters said they had heard of Johnson, Benson or Leyton, while 48 percent had heard of Schuette, a former state legislator and state judge.
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