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.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney raised more money in Michigan between April and June than did President Barack Obama.
Despite his own calls for separating lobbying from leading, Gov.-elect Rick Snyder has named lobbyists to key administration positions and transparency advocates are anxiously awaiting his promised ethics reform agenda.
In an extensive article from the Detroit Free Press over the weekend, state pundits tried to weight the potential impact of the Tea Party movement in state politics. For Republican candidate for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District Tom Stillings the meetings with the Tea Party have been like “the Spanish Inquisition,” reports Freep reporter Todd Spangler.
Congressional candidate Jason Allen and Secretary of State candidates State Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau) and Cameron Brown (R-Sturgis) are sponsors of a Senate bill that would enact Arizona-style immigration reforms in Michigan.
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.
Six Republicans and one Democrat are squaring off to take Rep. Bart Stupak’s seat in the U.S. Congress in what could be a significant election for determining which party retains control of the House.
In what may be an indication of the limited reach and political muscle of the nascent anti-government, anti-tax Tea Party movement, voters in three municipalities and at least two school districts in west Michigan approved various tax increase initiatives. The Grand Rapids Press reports that residents in Grand Rapids, Kentwood and Wyoming all voted to [...]
With the field of candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor finally set, political insiders and pundits are divided on which candidate will emerge from the pack while the public asks, “Who are those people?”
With House Speaker Andy Dillon and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, both opponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion, considering a run for the Democratic nomination for governor, traditional Democratic constituencies face a choice of which candidate to get behind in the primaries.
A new slate of city leaders voted into office during multiple elections could help Detroit put the political scandals of the last few years behind the state’s largest city.
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