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.
Michigan advocates are continuing their drive to get the state legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, even as Arkansas has gone back and reworked its law.
Former State Sen. Alan Cropsey has a new job, and it is worrying some activists in the state. Cropsey was formally appointed as the legislative liaison for Attorney General Bill Schuette.
A rare post lame duck session of the state legislature has prompted Kevin Epling, co-director of Bully Police USA and a leading advocate for anti-bullying legislation in the state, to call on the state Senate to use the opportunity to pass the law.
The considerable and historic gains by Michigan Republicans in Tuesday’s election is giving new voice to outgoing GOP members who say legislation to address bullying that has languished in the legislature for years is not going to be taken up in the lame duck session.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and staff of the Department of Education sent a message to 15,000 school districts and 5000 college and universities Tuesday: Bullying is not acceptable and schools may have an obligation to intervene under federal law.
News last week of the suicide of a 12-year-old middle school student in Michigan’s upper peninsula has activists and lawmakers renewing their calls for swift action on stalled legislation that supporters say would help prevent bullying.
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was waiting in her Capitol office for a temporary spending bill that would re-open state government. The Michigan House had adjourned for the night. And gallery watchers early this morning were streaming out of the Capitol believing the budget battle of 2009 was over, just two hours after it had begun.
But the GOP-led Senate had another plan.
LANSING — The Republican-led Michigan Senate passed a series of budget related bills for immediate effect, only to have them shelved again. The biggest, perhaps most important piece of legislation given immediate effect was SB 831, a continuing resolution that would allow the government to function for the next 30 days while legislators continue to [...]
Shortly before 8 p.m., the Michigan House quickly took up the Department of Corrections budget, just long enough for Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith to withdraw the motion for reconsideration she made on Tuesday night after its initial passage. The Senate then took up the bill and passed it by a 23-14 vote.
LANSING — The Republican-controlled Michigan Senate pushed through temporary budgets on Friday morning as a way to prevent a state shutdown in Oct. 1. But Senate Democrats opposed the move saying the temporary budgets instituted “massive cuts.”
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