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.
In 2002, Michigan voters approved a proposal that made $1 billion in loans available to communities for projects to improve water quality. But despite a serious need for sewer and water system upgrades around the state, about $600 million in loans remain unused because many communities can’t afford to take on new projects.
Republican Rick Snyder’s gubernatorial campaign initially stuck by a list of endorsements from 30 Detroit-area ministers after some of the names on the list were challenged by the Virg Bernero campaign, but later admitted that a handful of the names on the list may not, in fact, endorsed Snyder for governor. The Detroit News reports:
Republican Tim Walberg, like nearly all other Republican legislators or office seekers, has repeatedly claimed that President Obama’s stimulus package was a failure and has not produced any jobs. But as ThinkProgress noted on Friday, Walberg has proof this isn’t true because his own son is employed on a stimulus-funded infrastructure project:
The Detroit City Council rejected a proposal to put a referendum on the ballot this November asking voters whether they would support disbanding the Detroit School Board and handing over control of the schools to Mayor Dave Bing. The vote was 6-3. The proposal had the support of Bing, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Secretary [...]
Though it’s received almost no news coverage, and few seem aware of it, the U.S. and Canada are in the process of renegotiating a longstanding diplomatic agreement on Great Lakes water protection. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was first signed by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and President Nixon in 1972, and was revised in [...]
The department in charge of administering the state’s medical marijuana program has come out in opposition to a package of bills that would change the program adopted via ballot measure in 2008. Under the current program, people with qualifying medical conditions can register with the state and receive authorization to possess and grow a limited [...]
According to a story in today’s Detroit News, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) isn’t closing the proverbial door on a run for governor this year. That means, of course, he’s considering it. If he were to jump in, that would mean two top-tier anti-abortion Democrats vying for their party’s nomination — the other being state [...]
Question: Where does the rubber meet the road for Detroit Public Schools now that the beleaguered district has a newly ratified three-year contract with its teachers that emphasizes financial stability and new accountability measures? Answer: The dreaded “rubber room.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. Left unmentioned, however, was how they plan to pay for that promise without unraveling a friendly deal struck earlier in the year between the pharmaceutical lobby and Democratic leaders in the White House and Senate.
Journalist Diane Bukowski, who was convicted in May of two felonies related to police obstruction, got one step closer to getting a her conviction overturned this morning when a judge granted her a new hearing of her case. Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway at first said he wasn’t sure if he could decide on [...]
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