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.
Backers of a recall effort targeting Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) say they have supplied state election officials with 12,200 signatures.
That is 2,500 more signatures than was necessary to qualify the recall for the November ballot, reports the Flint Journal. And while the group has turned those signatures into the Lansing election officials Friday, the state has until Sept. 9 to certify the signatures and determine if there are enough valid signatures to result in an actual recall vote.
Backers say they targeted Scott, who chairs the House Education Committee, over his support for education cuts and pension reforms.
The Michigan Education Association also supported the recall.
For his part, Scott says the recall is about the unions and does not represent the voters of his district.
There are more than a dozen recall petitions circulating in the state targeting lawmakers over the budget approved in May, as well as a recall of Gov. Rick Snyder.
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