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.
Late Sunday, state and local election officials announced that absentee balloting in the race for the 20th state Senate seat would be suspended pending decisions on how to handle the unexpected death of the Democratic nominee, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
State Rep. and former Kalamazoo Mayor Robert Jones died unexpectedly Sunday at his home. No cause has been determined, but he has been battling esophageal cancer for over a year and half.
The sudden death has left state and local election officials scrambling to figure out what do with the Nov. 2 ballot. Michigan election law prohibits a deceased person from appearing on the ballot. That means Democrats need to name a replacement for Jones, which forces the election officials to reprint ballots.
As a result, absentee balloting has been suspended for at least Monday in the district while election officials huddle to find an answer for the dilemma.
Jones was undergoing chemotherapy to treat the cancer, even as he was vigorously campaigning to replace term limited state Sen. Tom George, a Republican. His opponent Tonya Schuitmaker, a Republican state representative from Lawton, has suspended her campaign activities and pulled her campaign advertising for the time being.
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