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.
A group led by one of Gov. Rick Snyder’s top campaign advisers, John Yob, has put out a Youtube video and may soon start running TV commercials in support of the governor’s proposal to significantly shift the tax burden from businesses to working families, the poor and senior citizens.
The Detroit News reports:
The video, posted on the website of the pro-budget group Value for Michigan, features children talking directly into the camera to unseen parents and grandparents.
“You taught me to be responsible,” one child says. “To save some of my allowance.
“But what about Michigan? Please be responsible with our future.”
“Don’t pass the buck,” the children admonish their elders. “Don’t leave it all on us.”
The connection between this rhetoric and Snyder’s budget proposal is left unspoken — probably because there is none. Usually the rhetoric of not passing things on to our children refers to leaving them debt, but in Michigan the constitution has to be balanced every year so there is no debt to pass on.
Critics argue that Snyder’s budget proposal would actually cause great harm to Michigan’s children by doing away with the child income tax exemption and the Earned Income Tax Credit — which by itself would push 14,000 more children into poverty, according to a new study — and slashing state funding for K-12 education.
Here’s the video:
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