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.
Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican leadership in the state legislature announced that they had reached a tentative deal on budget matters that would modify some of Snyder’s proposals and phase in others over time.
Wednesday’s protests at the Capitol were many times larger than those on Tuesday, with teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders. Here are some images from the rally.
The city of Allen Park — like most municipalities in the state — is facing a budget deficit of nearly one million, and now the city’s administrator says the elected council will have to address the budget on their own.
In the last two months, the Michigan Civil Service Commission has made decisions to stop a three percent State Employee Retirement Contribution and to extend health benefits to other eligible individuals living with state employees. Both of those decision are coming under increasing legislative focus.
LANSING — As Congress continues to battle over whether to extend additional federal Medicaid funds to states, Michigan lawmakers are making plans to deal with what will translate to be an unexpected $500 million gap in the next fiscal year’s budget.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the obvious on Thursday, saying that there was insufficient political courage in the Michigan legislature to pass legislation that would apply the sales tax to most services in order to shore up the state budget and prevent the steep budget cuts the state has faced on a yearly basis. The Detroit [...]
The directors of the two non-partisan fiscal agencies that advise the legislature on budget matters agreed at a conference put on by Business Leaders for Michigan on Monday that even if the economy recovers as expected, the state will still face systemic budget deficits over the next few years due to the continuing loss of [...]
With Oakland county reporting a syphilis outbreak, and Ingham and Kent counties reporting significant new cases of the sexually transmitted infection, advocates and health officials say the state legislature’s budget-carving ways are in part to blame.
The recent spate of anonymous — and probably illegal — robocalls targeting Democratic gubernatorial candidates Andy Dillon and Virg Bernero didn’t contain any outright falsehoods, but they did mix in a bit of spin and distortion along with the facts.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the Grand Rapids Press editorial team that if the state legislature plans on cutting education funding, they should also plan on making sure they have a veto-proof majority. Otherwise, she’s going to veto the measure and shut the state government down.
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