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.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is scheduled to headline the Ingham County Republicans’ 2008 Lincoln Day Luncheon on Jan. 14, one day before the Michigan Republican Presidential Primary. The luncheon, being held at the Holiday Inn South in Lansing, touts special guests Congressman Mike Rogers and former U.S. Senate candidate Keith Butler. The cost of [...]
[Ed. note: We continue our roundup of the highlights and low lights of 2007 with a look at Michigan's recent political terrain.] [COMMENTARY] Checks and balances. Civil discussion and compromise to achieve the common goals of our society. These are the things that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they devised our system of [...]
Duncan Hunter, a long-shot candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has raised very little money in Michigan, indicating a lack of organization that could prove politically fatal down the road. Hunter, a 14-term congressman from Alpine, Calif., and former chair of the House Armed Services Committee, reported raising $20,375 from Michigan, a tiny fraction of [...]
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson raised $45,096 in 2007 from Michigan donors for his presidential campaign, according to Federal Election Commission reports. Richardson is one of five Democrats who have are honoring the DNC’s wishes in skipping the Michigan Primary. Richardson was in the middle of the pack when it came to fundraising among the [...]
Amway chief Dick DeVos, the 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate, has sent holiday greetings to supporters that read much more like a campaign announcement than a Christmas card. In the one-page, Dec. 13 e-mail entitled “A message from Dick DeVos,” he highlights state budget shortfalls and tax increases as problems and solicits ideas from readers, saying [...]
Democrats in the U.S. Senate have dropped efforts to finance consumer credits and impose new taxes on the biggest oil companies, unable by one vote to overcome a Republican filibuster last week. Republicans had signaled they would force the Democrats to find 60 votes on the oil taxes. President Bush said that $13.5 billion in [...]
The Michigan Board of Canvassers is scheduled to meet Dec. 19 in Lansing. Among its other election duties, the board is responsible for canvassing state-level ballot proposal petitions and adopting ballot language for statewide ballot proposals. The agenda of the meeting offers a sneak peek at the November 2008 ballot, as ballot initiative committees begin [...]
Less than three week away from the January 3rd Iowa Caucus, the editorial board from states most influential newspaper, The Des Moines Register’s has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa Presidential caucuses. Iowa’s statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates it believes are most competent and [...]
In the spirit of Christmas, today UAW Local Union 6000, will donated 10 large boxes of new toys to Ingham County children on Friday, December 14th. Marines from Charlie Company working with the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots program accepted the toys, and were delighted when the amount of toys donated completely filled the back [...]
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 [...]
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