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 Kent County Democratic activist has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids to try to stop the party’s Michigan primary now planned for Jan. 15.
The plaintiff claims that the primary would disenfranchise those voters whose candidate is not on the ballot and that the Democratic Party has violated her constitutional rights to engage in political activity because its rules led her candidate to withdraw.
Democrats Joe Biden, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson all had their names removed from the Michigan ballot because the Jan. 15 date violates Democratic National Committee rules.
The lawsuit, filed Monday against both the Michigan Democratic Party and the Secretary of State’s Office, asks for injunctions against the Jan. 15 primary. If successful, it could force Michigan to hold a caucus, though party insiders didn’t seem to think that the case would go very far.
The case was filed by Grand Rapids attorney Earl Erland, who is listed as the assistant organizer of the John Edwards Grand Rapids Meet-Up group and has given $500 to the Edwards campaign so far in 2007. While calls to Erland were unsuccessful, he has been reported as saying that he was not sure of what candidate the plaintiff, Martha Hayes, supported. However, campaign finance records show that both Erland and Hayes donated $250 to the Edwards campaign on September 30.
A spokesman for the Michigan Democratic Party said Wednesday that he thought the lawsuit had no merit. The Jan. 15 Republican primary is not mentioned in the lawsuit.
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