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 this were the old Gong Show, Lt. Gov. John Cherry would be on stage with a paper bag over his head telling bad one-liners. But this is politics and Cherry is, for all practical purposes, the unknown candidate. As the Detroit Free Press reports, a new poll shows that nearly 40 percent of Michigan [...]
Another week, another poll — and another change at the top. With eight months to go before the 2010 Republican primary for Michigan governor, Attorney General Mike Cox has a slim lead over U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra. The Detroit News reports on the Mitchell Research poll:
The latest poll from Denno-Noor on the 2010 governor’s race shows Rep. Pete Hoekstra has jumped into the lead. The poll of 950 likely voters in the state of Michigan found Hoekstra leading current Attorney General Mike Cox and Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard by a fairly healthy margin. Here are the results for both [...]
Michigan Liberal passes on speculation from Two Joes that House Speaker Andy Dillon is going to announce his candidacy soon for the 2010 Democratic nomination to be Michigan’s governor. Color me skeptical. I know Lt. Gov. John Cherry is not exactly anyone’s dream candidate in the Democratic Party. As Tim Skubick said on my radio [...]
A new survey of 600 Democrats in Southeast Michigan by Denno Noor Polling found that while Lt. Gov. John Cherry has a clear and sizable lead over his declared opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010, nearly two-thirds of respondents are still undecided in the race. Those results are prompting speculation that Cherry may be vulnerable to a strong primary challenger: The question is, who could mount such a challenge?
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