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.
Lawyers from the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, an arm of the the conservative Mackinac Center for Public Policy think tank, have filed a lawsuit with the Appeals Court arguing the state improperly unionized child care workers in 2006. The Lansing State Journal reports the center is representing two child care providers from Petosky. The two [...]
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in conjunction with Health Care for America Now (HCAN) has launched an attacking Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Livonia, for not supporting health care reform. The groups are targeting McCotter, as well as Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, along with legislators from other states including Senator Richard Burr [...]
I’d heard it said that in Michigan that you can’t approach a polling place if you’re wearing any kind of recognizable campaign paraphernalia. It had the ring of urban myth, but it is not one. The law was challenged in federal court on grounds of free speech, but upheld by a federal judge this week.
Federal Judge Patrick Duggan of the Eastern District of Michigan has upheld a state law banning campaign T-shirts and buttons from being worn at polling places around the state.
Activists put GOP on defensive with jujitsu move that uses “family values” to floor McCain on Iraq issue MoveOn.org debuted a political television ad Wednesday it says is testing better with preview audiences than any ad the progressive nonprofit has ever made. The ad uses a young mother and her cooing baby to attack John [...]
UPDATE — Late development in the Kilpatrick case reported this afternoon by contributor Minehaha Forman: Christine Beatty, former chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was ordered to wear an electronic tether Friday after making plans to leave the state without notifying court officials, as it was required by her bond, according to the [...]
Sen. Hillary Clinton came to Michigan Wednesday and publicly urged Sen. Barack Obama to get on board plans for a proposed do-over Democratic primary. Clinton visited the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees building in downtown Detroit in a last-minute appearance designed to pressure Obama and state lawmakers who have said they don’t [...]
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