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.
A crowd estimated to be between 1000 and 1500 people gathered in Lansing Tuesday to rally, protest and lobby against a series of GOP bills which they say would erode organized labor’s influence in Michigan.
Anyone reading the political tea leaves in relation to the coming budget battle in the state of Michigan knows that deep cuts are coming. The state is facing a $1.8 billion deficit, and newly minted Gov. Rick Snyder has said he will not approve or ask for any taxes to fill the gap. That means [...]
In a post election interview with the Jackson Citizen Patriot, Congressman-elect Tim Walberg said if President Barack Obama doesn’t follow the mandate of the voters, “he will shut government down.”
A new report released by Guidestar.org has found that the amount and number of individual donations has dropped off in the majority of the nation’s nonprofits. Guidestar publishes information on nonprofits such as their annual IRS form 990 reports. According to the electronic survey (pdf) of 7,014 public charities and private foundations found that while [...]
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Bouchard says Michigan’s state employees are over paid. To fix it, Bouchard told a group gathered at Western Michigan University, voters should adopt a Constitutional amendment to bring those salaries into line with the private sector. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports Bouchard made the comments Wednesday night in Kalamazoo.
It’s time for the spring revenue estimating numbers to be released from the House and Senate Fiscal Agencies again and the first set of projections are a mixed bag. The Senate Fiscal Agency released its May projections, which foresee a significant shortfall for the state’s General Fund and a sizable surplus for the School Aid [...]
The Lansing City Council decided to put a vote on Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s $109.4 million budget proposal until next Monday. The body also put off a planned vote on a .4 mill increase in Lansing property taxes which would shore up a faltering budget. Both moves were done, when at the last minute council [...]
As officials in the city of Lansing race toward the end of their budget process, a proposal to increase the city’s property tax rate by .4 mills has surfaced and could be voted on as soon as Monday night.
The House Republican Caucus unveiled its state budget proposal Tuesday morning, a plan they claim will close the state’s budget deficit of $1.8 billion without any new revenue streams.
With Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) formally in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor, his rivals are questioning his recent statements about the creation of a cuts-only budget for the 2010-2011 budget.
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