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.
If Michigan lawmakers are in the mood to offer reforms that could appease parts of the Occupy Wall St. movement — though there’s no indication that they are — beefing up the the state’s rules for campaign finance disclosure might make a good start.
Gov. Rick Snyder has set up funds that can receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors, prompting concerns by non-partisan campaign reform advocates that the anonymity could conceal quid pro quo arrangements between contributors and the governor.
Michigan voters were subjected to almost $23 million worth of anonymously-funded television advertisements during the 2010 election, according to a new report by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network.
A new Political Action Committee, Michigan Citizens United, has officially begun the process of recalling Gov. Rick Snyder by filing a petition in Washtenaw County where Snyder lives.
The policies advocated by Gov. Rick Snyder in his first three months in office have been so unpopular that if the election were held today, a new poll shows that he would lose to Virg Bernero rather than win the landslide he did last November.
LANSING — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder delivered his first State of the State address to Michigan lawmakers and the public Wednesday night. Standing before a joint session of the Michigan legislature, Snyder clarified a vision for Michigan, but provided very little in terms of details on how the state would bridge its estimated $1.8 billion [...]
Just before taking office, Governor Rick Snyder, a multi-millionaire former venture capitalist and Gateway computer executive, made good on a campaign promise to avoid financial conflicts of interest by establishing a blind trust.
After numerous reports of this taking place over the last week, Gov. Rick Snyder announced that he is appointing Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan to lead the Department of Human Services.
After we noted yesterday that the Snyder administration had not yet revealed the corporate sponsors of his inaugural ball, this morning his office released a list of 75 groups that put up money to fund inaugural events. Here is that list in full:
Gov. Rick Snyder enters office facing an estimated $1.8 billion deficit in the next fiscal year, but he is hardly alone; newly elected governors all over the country are facing similar fiscal problems as they officially get started on their new jobs.
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