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.
Now that Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is out of the running for the GOP nomination for governor, is another prominent political figure in the state’s most populous county eying the state’s top job?
Low taxes. Pro growth. Less regulation. If you follow politics, you know these are the central tenants of Republican economic philosophy, and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra wants the party faithful in Michigan to know he is in favor of each of them. Perhaps that’s a typical stance for a candidate seeking his party’s nomination for the governorship, which the congressman from Holland announced his intention to run for last month.
Sixty-seven communities in 27 counties in Michigan will receive $47.3 million in federal transportation enhancement funding though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for myriad construction and upgrade projects, Lt. Gov. John D. Cherry, Jr. announced today. The funding will complete 176 miles of bike paths and paved shoulders; enhance local roadways in communities statewide [...]
Michigan will receive $65 million in federal stimulus funds to be used for child care and disease prevention programs out of $2.3 billion the Obama administration set aside for such purposes, the White House announced today. The vast majority of the total finds — nearly $59 million — will go toward funding to provide vouchers [...]
Republican State Rep. Marty Knollenberg of Troy is looking to ease the pain of the downturn in the housing market with the introduction of a bill that would increase the federal capital loss deduction from $3,000 to $6,000. “The crisis in the housing market, coupled with the credit crunch, has forced many in the middle [...]
On the heels of Attorney General Mike Cox’s controversial awarding of foreclosure settlement money to two Grand Rapids-area park improvement projects, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer announced today that he wants to find out how Cox has awarded other settlement funds in the past. Brewer made the announcement this morning that he would use [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is planning to host a public forum next week to discuss the how to stem the tide that leads nearly half of the Michigan’s college students to seek professional opportunities outside the state within a year of graduating. Granholm wants to reverse that trend and minimize the effects of Michigan’s brain drain, [...]
With the college basketball world’s biggest game just hours away, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue have agreed to a friendly wager on the outcome of tonight’s NCAA’s National Championship game. Tip-off between Michigan State and North Carolina will take place at 9:21 p.m. at Detroit’s Ford Field. According to a [...]
Faced with a $14 million budget deficit, officials in Flint are looking to cut costs by laying off more city employees as part of its proposed budget, The Flint Journal reports. The budget’s details will be presented at City Hall today at 5:30 p.m. by Flint’s temporary mayor, Michael Brown, who said the state’s fourth-largest [...]
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