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.
LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Friday exonerated Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith in a probe into the release of a man’s HIV-positive status, which sparked questions of whether medical privacy laws were violated in a case involving an undercover sex sting in a city nature center.
House Speaker Andy Dillon’s proposal to pool the healthcare for all public employees in the state of Michigan is sparking a debate that crosses party lines. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Dillon’s fellow Democrat, says the idea is a bad one that won’t save the state any money in the foreseeable future:
Yes, I know it’s far too early to start looking at polls, but since this ABC/Epic-MRA survey is the first major poll to come out that includes the names we know are going to be running for governor in 2010 it has to be reported. For the Republicans, things look unsurprisingly bunched up:
In the most anticlimactic news story since the invasion of Iraq began, Attorney General Mike Cox announced that he will join the race to be governor of Michigan in 2010. He joins Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Rep. Pete Hoekstra, and possibly others, in seeking the Republican nomination for the seat.
On April 8, after controversy over Attorney General Mike Cox using funds from the settlement of a mortgage fraud case against Countrywide to fund park projects in the Grand Rapids area, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents related to the distribution of funds from all such [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox filed papers with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court handling the Chrysler bankruptcy on behalf of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Agency and Funds Administration. The state is objecting to a provision in Chrysler’s proposed bankruptcy that would allow the company to avoid paying its obligations to the worker’s compensation fund. The Detroit News [...]
On the heels of Attorney General Mike Cox’s controversial awarding of foreclosure settlement money to two Grand Rapids-area park improvement projects, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer announced today that he wants to find out how Cox has awarded other settlement funds in the past. Brewer made the announcement this morning that he would use [...]
In February, Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order requiring that those seeking permits for new coal plants consider whether coal plants are the “most feasible and prudent” way to meet the state’s power needs. In March Attorney General Mike Cox responded with an opinion stating that the governor did not have the legal authority [...]
As we reported a couple weeks ago that Michigan will be the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by many states against insurance giant AIG for allegedly misleading investors, including the Michigan state employee’s pension fund, about the security of AIG’s backing of credit default swaps. The Detroit Free Press asks a good question about [...]
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