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.
Tim Skubick, the dean of state political reporters in Michigan, addressed the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce yesterday and said that Rick Snyder won the governor’s mansion by default because Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Attorney General Mike Cox spent all their efforts going after one another instead of him. The Holland Sentinel reports:
Snyder won the governor’s seat, Skubick said, because Mike Cox’s negative ads brought down Pete Hoekstra.
“By all rights, we should be talking about governor-elect Pete Hoekstra,” Skubick said Tuesday morning at a chamber breakfast. “The guys in the primary were so busy beating up on each other, they let Snyder through virtually untouched.”
I think this is basically correct. Cox and Hoekstra waged a negative campaign against one another to secure the conservative vote, which allowed Snyder to appeal to moderates and independents and win just enough support from them to top the divided conservative vote for the other two candidates.
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