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.
Cliff Taylor, the longtime Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, appears to have lost his bid for reelection to challenger Diane Hathaway. With 56 percent of the vote counted as this is written, Hathaway leads by a margin of 50 percent to 39 percent.
While judicial races are technically non-partisan in the state of Michigan, Taylor is a conservative icon both here and around the country and he was staunchly supported by the Republican party, while Hathaway is generally considered a liberal whose main source of support was from Democrats.
Hathaway will leave her current position as a Wayne County Circuit Judge to become a justice on the state Supreme Court, but she will not necessarily take the chief justice position. That position is decided by a vote of the members of the state’s high court.
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