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.
Term-limited Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a longtime Republican activist and former Kent County Clerk, has endorsed state Sen. Cameron Brown (R-Sturgis) to be her successor, stating that he would bring dignity and respect to the office. The Detroit Free Press reports that Land’s endorsement could give Brown a leg up against State Sen. [...]
The Jocelyn Benson campaign for Secretary of State released their fundraising numbers this morning for the period leading up to the general election. The campaign raised $540,000 from 2,000 individual donors and has $410,000 in cash on hand. A press release from the campaign said:
In recent weeks the candidates for Secretary of State have traded criticisms over which party has a better platform for election reform, but so far no candidate has chosen to weigh in on one of the most central issues in campaign finance — television issue ads.
During a poll of Republican voters on the gubernatorial race by the Glengariff Group, respondents were also asked which candidates they support in the races for Attorney General and Secretary of State. In the AG race, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop got 19.4 percent and former state judge Bill Schuette got 18.8 percent, a virtual [...]
Since the 2000 presidential election — in which a highly controversial Florida ballot recount was supervised by an overtly partisan Secretary of State — there has been increasing focus on the risks of partisan election administration.
Michigan Democrats settled on election law expert and voting rights activist Jocelyn Benson as their candidate for Secretary of State back in April, but the Republican field of candidates remains crowded with no definite front runner, race watchers say.
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson decided, for some odd reason, to join an already crowded field of contenders seeking the Republican nomination to be Michigan’s next secretary of state. Several months after several more prominent candidates — state Sen. Michelle McManus, state Sen. Cameron Brown, state Rep. Paul Scott and Calhoun County Clerk Anne Norlander [...]
Wayne State University law professor Jocelyn Benson has a clear lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State, according to a recent poll of the Capital Caucus, a bipartisan group of Michigan political insiders. On the Republican side the candidate choice is less clear. The group gives State Sen. Michelle McManus [...]
While the state of Michigan has had virtually no actual voter fraud in its entire history, the Republican candidates for Secretary of State who spoke at a recent luncheon event made voter fraud one of the primary issues on their agenda.
Today is the deadline for candidates at the state level to file their campaign finance reports with the Secretary of State’s office, but some of the numbers for major candidates had been announced earlier. Attorney General Mike Cox announced three weeks ago that it had raised $1.8 million up to that point and had $1.5 [...]
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