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.
As a candidate Rick Snyder railed against the power of special interest groups in Lansing and called for strengthened financial disclosure for lobbyists, yet his administration still has not identified the corporate sponsors of his inaugural ball held this past weekend.
LANSING — Under a sunny and blue skies with unseasonably warm temperatures on Saturday, newly elected Republicans took over nearly all of the key leadership positions in the state of Michigan.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Officials with the incoming Snyder administration say they are looking through the state’s tax code in an effort to identify tax breaks and loopholes that can be eliminated.
Do you want to watch Gov.-elect Rick Snyder become Gov. Rick Snyder on New Year’s Day? Don’t want to make the trip to Lansing or stand in what is likely to be arctic weather? You’re in luck. The inauguration of Snyder, his Lt. Gov. choice Brian Calley and other statewide candidates Attorney General-elect Bill Schuette [...]
Despite his own calls for separating lobbying from leading, Gov.-elect Rick Snyder has named lobbyists to key administration positions and transparency advocates are anxiously awaiting his promised ethics reform agenda.
Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state for denying an air permit for a coal and petroleum coke plant planned for Rogers City. In a case that is scheduled to be heard in Missaukee Circuit Court next week the power company is asking the court to reverse the permit denial and overturn Governor Granholm’s Feb. [...]
The “business model” approach to government unveiled by Governor-elect Rick Snyder yesterday puts former Dept. of Agriculture director Dan Wyant — an opponent regulating the negative environmental effects of large farms — in charge of the Dept. of Environmental Quality.
Gov-elect Rick Snyder went all the way to Utah to find his budget director, hiring the executive director of that state’s Office of Planning and Budget, John Nixon, for the job. Nixon is also the president of the National Association of State Budget Officers. Peter Luke looks at Nixon’s background and what he has done [...]
Speaking at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in San Diego yesterday, Governor-elect Rick Snyder called cutting public employee compensation “one of the toughest things I need to do as the next governor.” The Washington Post reports:
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