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.
Public Citizen put out a post-election report that looked at spending by third-party organizations that can take unlimited contributions and do not have to disclose their donors in all of the races in which a seat in the U.S. House or Senate changed hands from one party to another.
In the 74 races where that happened, the winner received more support from those groups than the loser in 58 of them. But Michigan’s District 7 bucked that trend. Because of a rush of last-minute spending, Rep. Mark Schauer (D) got $877,098 more help from those groups than Tim Walberg (R) did.
District 1, the other key House race everyone was watching, held more to form. In that race, Republican Dan Benishek received $355,178 more in help from such organizations than his opponent, Democrat Gary McDowell.
Most of that spending was on so-called “issues ads,” which typically are negative ads about one of the candidates in the race that don’t explicitly tell viewers to vote for their opponent.
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