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.
House Democrats are expressing concern that Michigan Speaker of the House, Redford Township Democrat Andy Dillon, says he is working on developing a cuts only budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
After a month of operating on a continuing budget, and just days after Gov. Jennifer Granholm finally signed the last few budget bills to avoid another government shutdown, the budget situation for FY 2010, which began Oct. 1, has already deteriorated. The result: More cuts will be required on top of what has already been [...]
There’s a very interesting statement from House Speaker Andy Dillon in the middle of this Chris Christoff article in the Detroit Free Press. It may be quite telling about the political considerations going on behind the scenes in the state legislature:
The latest group to stage a protest at the state capitol over the massive cuts in next year’s budget: Police officers, firefighters and local government officials. They’re steamed over the $144 million in cuts to local revenue sharing, much of which goes to fund local police and fire departments. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Gov. Granholm says she will not veto the final six budget bills sent to her desk by the Republican-controlled Senate earlier this week, but she will have to remove some spending provisions to make up for revenue that is declining even before the fiscal year begins. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Two groups of Michigan physicians are locked in disagreement over a proposed bill that would place a 3 percent tax on the income of doctors in order to qualify for federal matching funds and increase funding for Medicaid. The bill has already passed the state House but is still pending in the Senate. The 3 [...]
As Michigan’s ongoing budget saga continues, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop now says he will forward the six remaining departmental budget bills to Gov. Jennifer Granholm sometime next week, which he says is “plenty of time for her to make her decisions.” The governor has already signed nine of the 15 budget bills, but Bishop [...]
The Michigan Association of School Boards did some numbers crunching based upon a new memo sent by Department of the Treasury to Gov. Jennifer Granholm and say it appears that K-12 schools could face budget cuts twice as deep as those in the current budget because of continuing shortfalls in predicted revenues each month.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop met on Wednesday for an hour in an attempt to iron out their differences on the current budget standoff. The meeting solved nothing whatsoever, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop are meeting today for budget negotiations, in the wake of tension between the two of them over the scope of the governor’s ability to transfer money within or between departments. Gov. Granholm has been claiming that she has the authority to veto specific appropriations in bills [...]
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