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.
An investigation into the controversial shooting of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by the Dearborn Police Department has been completed and forwarded to Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal agents during a raid on a Dearborn warehouse on October 28, 2009. The Detroit Free Press reports: Dearborn officials [...]
There seems to be some sort of miscommunication going on between Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Attorney General Mike Cox not only over whether Cox has the authority to sign Michigan on to a lawsuit challenging the new health care reform bill passed recently, but also over whether Cox has or has not agreed to suspend [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox has filed a brief, along with 13 other state attorneys general, in a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court called Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. The case involves the question of whether recognized student organizations at a publicly funded university can set their own standards for membership or whether the [...]
At least one candidate for governor is not running into the fundraising problems that forced Lt. Gov. John Cherry out of the race. Though not required to do so, Attorney General Mike Cox announced that he has raised nearly $2 million in his race for governor and has most of that still in the bank [...]
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is joining with 12 other Republican attorneys general to threaten a federal lawsuit challenging the so-called Nebraska compromise that helped get the health care reform bill passed in the Senate on Christmas Eve:
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has joined with several other state AGs to research the question of whether the so-called Nebraska compromise — incentives added to the Senate health care reform bill to gain the vote of Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to end the debate and bring the bill to the floor for a vote [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox is planning to file a federal lawsuit to have the locks dividing the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan closed to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The Detroit Free Press reports:
While Attorney General Mike Cox continues to contend he will not drop out of the race for the GOP nomination for governor over allegations he impeded an investigation into an alleged party at Detroit’s Manoogian Mansion, he is trying hard to keep his campaign focused on the future rather than the past.
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to begin a new term on the traditional first Monday in October, one case they will hear this fall involves a prosecutor who was found to have coerced testimony and withheld evidence of a suspect’s innocence, resulting in an innocent man being sent to prison for 25 years. In [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, currently locked in negotiations with Republicans in the state senate in the hope of reaching a compromise to on the FY2009 budget, released her proposal for how to fund the government for the next two years. Attorney General Mike Cox, who is running to take her seat in 2010, offered his own [...]
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