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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed one bill and part of another that were part of the budget compromises for FY 2011, which began nearly two weeks ago on Oct. 1.
She vetoed completely a bill that would have allowed sales of liquor on Sunday mornings, saying that she supports the bill but it contained language that could open the state up to lawsuits. She encouraged the legislature to fix that language so she could sign the bill.
The second was a supplemental school funding bill, which she vetoed only in part, redlining Section 2 of the bill that governed how new federal funds would be distributed. She released a letter from the U.S. Department of Education that suggests that wording of the bill violated the standards of the federal legislation that authorized the funds.
As with the previous bill, Granholm hopes the legislature will fix the faulty language and indicated that she would then sign the bill.
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