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.
Attorney General Mike Cox has rallied eight attorneys general from other states to join him in challenging the Obama administration’s Department of Justice lawsuit to stop Arizona’s controversial immigration law, slated to go into effect July 29. Cox announced Monday he was intervening in the case, and has sought other states to join him in [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday sent a tersely worded letter to Republican Attorney General Mike Cox demanding that he intervene in a federal lawsuit over recently enacted health care reform legislation in favor of the new law. Cox signed onto a lawsuit opposing the legislation on state’s rights issues on Tuesday. But Granholm says he [...]
To recognize Sunshine Week, Michigan’s Attorney General and GOP candidate for governor, Mike Cox, has had an editorial published on MLive.com calling for other candidates to release their personal financial information. Cox did so earlier this week.
The campaign of Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder has filed two complaints with the Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Attorney General Mike Cox alleging that groups behind a series of attack ads are violating Michigan’s Campaign Finance Law. Snyder attorney Daniel Carlson filed the complaints Tuesday against Eagle Strategies and the Michigan Civic [...]
Mark Brewer, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, says Democrats will endorse their candidates for statewide offices, such as attorney general and secretary of state, months before the August convention. The move breaks from party tradition, where the gubernatorial selection — chosen this year in an Aug. 3 primary — gets a chance to make [...]
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat, has an opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General in 2010. With most of the state political operatives sleeping over the holiday break, Richard Bernstein, son of Sam Bernstein the 1-800-Call-Sam legal eagle, filed his campaign committee paperwork with the Secretary of State’s [...]
As the Michigan Department of Community Health announced that 54 Michigan deaths have been attributed to infection with the H1N1 virus, Attorney General Mike Cox released the results of a price comparison of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu, which is effective in combating the infection. The results of the AG study found prices varied widely — [...]
LANSING — East Lansing Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has filed the paperwork necessary to become an official candidate for the Democratic nomination for attorney general on the 2010 ticket. Whitmer, who has served in both the House and the Senate, has long been rumored as a likely candidate.
LANSING — A letter from the head of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s criminal division exonerating Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith of any criminal wrongdoing in the public release of an arrested man’s HIV-positive status has activists and political leaders up in arms.
LANSING — Mayoral candidates Charles Ford and Carol Wood, who are both trying to unseat incumbent Virgil Bernero, say city officials should press for an investigation into the release of a man’s HIV-positive status by the city attorney earlier this month.
“If some one on my staff were to divulge confidential information like that, I’d do my own investigation,” said Ford, a Lansing School Board member. “I wouldn’t need an attorney general investigation.”
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