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.
LANSING — The United States is the dumping ground for unsafe products and products manufactured with harmful chemicals, according to internationally acclaimed journalist and author Mark Schapiro. Schapiro is the editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and spent more than two years writing his book, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and [...]
The group attempting to recall Rep. Robert Dean, D-Grand Rapids, admitted failure and is throwing in the towel. According to a report in the Grand Rapids Press, a spokesperson from Taxpayers to Recall Robert Dean said the group was unable to collect the 8,714 signatures needed to force a recall election. The recall attempt was [...]
The U.S. congressional race for Michigan’s 9th District is shaping up as a microcosm of the presidential election in Michigan: an evenly divided red-blue battleground whose recent voting patterns closely follow national trends. The contest has already seen angry confrontations between the candidates’ supporters, dueling videographers seeking damning footage, and now a candidate with the [...]
LANSING — “In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights.” Those words might have been spoken by a current labor leader as right to work laws are being [...]
LANSING — The Michigan Senate will reconvene Tuesday following its two-week spring break, and it will mark the first time both the House and Senate have been in session at the same time since March 20. The House took its two-week break following its March 20 session, and it returned to session last week, but [...]
LANSING — If you think potholes are worse than ever, you’re right. It’s the worst pothole season in history, according to one advocate for more spending on roads. And the worst potholes in the state are in the streets of Walker, Waterford, Saginaw and Jackson. That’s the word from the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association. [...]
What can Michigan legislators do to help improve protections for the public against toxic products? That’s one of the questions to be addressed by investigative reporter Mark Schapiro this week in Ann Arbor. Internationally acclaimed journalist Schapiro is editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting and author of the book “Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry [...]
LANSING — After two quiet weeks in Lansing, things will pick up again this Tuesday when the state House returns from its spring vacation. And the Senate will be back next week after starting its own two-week break a week after the House. No agenda for the House sessions has been promulgated, but most of [...]
With shrinking newsrooms and newsroom consolidation, only the state’s two largest newspapers and the largest newspaper chain maintain a Lansing bureau, meaning there is less reporting on what is going in the capital. But for those wanting to keep a closer eye on what’s going on in Lansing, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy recently [...]
It was a warm spring day in Michigan in 1968 when TV and radio programming was interrupted with special bulletins to inform viewers and listeners that civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. This Friday, April 4, will mark the 40th anniversary of the day the respected and revered [...]
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