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.
Attorneys for the group that is fighting Michigan’s Emergency Manager law in state court say that Justice Stephen Markman should recuse himself from the case because his wife is representing the state in a related case pending in federal court.
In a tersely-worded response to the five-count legal challenge to the Emergency Manager law in Ingham County Circuit Court, the Snyder administration denied that the controversial law violates the state constitution but did not give detailed responses to the concerns raised.
In an interview yesterday state Treasurer Andy Dillon dismissed the idea that Pontiac will face bankruptcy unless it is absorbed by Oakland County.
Pontiac will be the first city where the state’s new Emergency Manager law is used to cancel a labor contract now that the state has approved a plan to void the contract with the city’s police dispatchers.
In spite of a plea from Jackson’s mayor and city manager, the Michigan Department of Treasury will not be reviewing the city’s finances as a potential first step towards a state take over of the city.
Benton Harbor may be the first city in the state to be completely taken over by an Emergency Manager under a new law that grants such appointees nearly unlimited power over local governments, but the first legal challenge has been filed by two Detroit pension boards.
The city of Flint has asked the state for permission to borrow $20 million so that it can make payroll in March. Failure to pay the bills would trigger a state investigation and possible takeover of city finances.
Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon is expected to be announced as Gov.-elect Rick Snyder’s pick to be State Treasurer, reports WLNS. Dillon, a conservative Democrat from Redford Township, had an unsuccessful bid to become the gubernatorial candidate for the Democratic party this year. He was beaten by Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, who is [...]
Just weeks before a crucial election, state Rep. Robert B. Jones (D-Kalamazoo) has died. He was 66. Jones had been battling esophageal cancer. Jones was a four term mayor of Kalamazoo before being elected to the state House in 2006. He was the Democratic nominee for the 20th Senate district, and was waging a spirited [...]
A bill that would offer incentives for early retirement for all state employees and require those that remain to pay three percent of their salary toward their own healthcare ran into trouble on Wednesday when the state House aborted a vote that would have rejected the plan. The Detroit Free Press reports:
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