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.
With the hoopla surrounding Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero’s announcement late last month that he was considering a run for the state’s highest office, very little attention has been paid to the fact that the White House and the Democratic National Committee have been involved in recruiting the mayor.
As the Halloween budget deadline looms, concerns are growing over signs that the governor may veto funding for agricultural research and extension programs seen as critical to the state’s agricultural sector.
HAMTRAMCK — U.S. Rep. John Conyers on Monday night declined to discuss the findings of a recent Denno Norr poll that showed he and Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick would lose to hypothetical opponents if elections for their seats were held today. “It didn’t show that, that’s the irony of it,” replied Conyers when asked about the [...]
Two big names in Detroit politics could be facing serious trouble next year if they run for re-election. And their names — Conyers and Kilpatrick — are their biggest liabilities.
A new survey of 600 Democrats in Southeast Michigan by Denno Noor Polling found that while Lt. Gov. John Cherry has a clear and sizable lead over his declared opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010, nearly two-thirds of respondents are still undecided in the race. Those results are prompting speculation that Cherry may be vulnerable to a strong primary challenger: The question is, who could mount such a challenge?
Four months after Gov. Jennifer Granholm publicly tasked her No. 2, John Cherry, with leading an effort to streamline government, Michigan’s official unemployment rate has hit 14.1 percent, the state is undergoing the steepest decline in revenue in at least a half century, and the state legislature is moving ahead with plans to combine two departments, Natural Resources and Environmental Quality.
When U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra announced his candidacy for governor in 2010 on Tim Skubick’s WKAR show “Off the Record” a few weeks ago, Skubick asked him how he planned to run for governor while still working in the House of Representatives on behalf of Michigan’s 2nd Congressional District. “Well when you go back to [...]
The Saginaw News reports that Dow Chemical Co. Chairman Andrew Liveris may be a possible candidate to be secretary of energy in the new administration.
UPDATED — 3:40 p.m. – Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the leading Democratic contender for his party’s nomination, will swing through Oakland County on Monday. The senator will be at Troy High School, located at 4777 Northfield Parkway in Troy at 12:30 p.m. Doors to the event will open at 10:30 a.m. and the event is [...]
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