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.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds issued a ruling Wednesday afternoon that threw even more confusion and uncertainly into Michigan’s already muddled presidential primary election fiasco. The ruling struck down as unconstitutional a provision in the law that would give the voter lists from the Jan. 15 primary only to the two major political parts and [...]
Don Bortz of Waterford served a year in Iraq as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. As someone who follows events in Iraq and keeps track of former comrades-in-arms, the war is never far from his mind. But this month, as the war entered its fifth year and the 4,000th American soldier was killed [...]
MONROE — Michigan has a long and rich history of organized labor, but that history is being lost as labor union membership falls off and some smaller unions fold. Bill Conner, the president of the Monroe County Council CIO Social and Welfare Association, is putting his labor, sweat and money into preserving that history with [...]
LANSING — Competing in a global economy means keeping costs as low as possible and continuing to look for ways to cut costs. Wayne State University and the state of Michigan hope to help the state’s Tier II and III auto suppliers compete by improving their information technology. Wayne State’s School of Business Administration has [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm will talk about subjects that are on the mind of every Michigan resident — the economy, jobs, health care, education and more — during a special televised town hall meeting Wednesday night in which she will take questions live. The state’s six NBC affiliates will broadcast the meeting live beginning at 8, [...]
A wide variety of causes are the focus of events this week organized by activist groups in Michigan: Environment Clean Energy Now, a coalition of leading environmental and watchdog groups, is launching a campaign to call on Gov. Jennifer Granholm to fight global warming. It’s holding a series of press conferences across the state on [...]
After months of negotiations and hearings, a package of bills aimed at reforming health coverage in the state may be pushed through the Michigan Senate within days. The Senate Health Policy Committee, chaired by Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, a medical doctor, has been holding hearings on House Bills 5282-5285, known collectively as the Individual Market Reform [...]
LANSING -Both the Michigan House and Senate pushed through a package of bills on the fast-track Wednesday aimed at luring film production work to Michigan. House Bills 5841-5855 and Senate Bills 1168-1172 include a wide variety of tax breaks and incentives intended to make Michigan attractive to filmmakers. The hope is the package will mean [...]
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick laid out his vision for the city of Detroit in his seventh State of the City Address Tuesday night. But he took the last five minutes to take shots at his critics, including TV stations, for what he called “a hate-filled, bigoted attack on his family” over the growing text-messaging scandal. [...]
Finding a way to seat Michigan’s presidential delegates has dominated the news in the last week, and as it gets closer to the Democratic National Convention in August, any potential solution will be hard to implement. “This is a real sticky problem,” said Wayne State University political science professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson. “A lot of people [...]
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