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.
The GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there.
Michigan-based immigration rights advocates are hailing a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that left in place a lower court ruling that said California’s university system can charge in-state tuition rates to undocumented residents who live in the state.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation to extend unemployment insurance another 14 weeks for Americans who have exhausted their 99 weeks of benefits, according to a report on MLive.com.
On Tuesday I reported about robocalls being paid for by Joe Munem which attacked GOP candidate for governor Rick Snyder. In that robocall, Snyder is attacked for being “sued by former Gateway customers…”
Michigan will not be able to keep the Standish maximum security prison operating by housing inmates from California, because Golden State officials have decided they cannot afford to send prisoners to Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports. The 356-bed Standish prison is one of eight facilities that the Michigan Department of Corrections recently announced would [...]
California and Michigan prison officials continue to negotiate a move of California prisoners to two of Michigan’s soon to be closed prisons. Michigan officials have been in California this week as part of the negotiations which started with a letter from Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. That letter indicated Michigan would be happy to play host to overflow prisoners from California.
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is reaching across the aisle today, all the way to California. Granholm, a Democrat, sent a letter to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, offering several Michigan prisons that are up for lease to assist both states with their current budget crunches.
A new report by the American News Project is likely to raise the heat on the Church of Latter Day Saints. The Church, whose members are commonly referred to as “Mormons”, is already under investigation by California election officials to find out if it violated California campaign finance law by failing to report expenses related [...]
The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear legal motions brought by the ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lambda Legal Defense Fund to prevent the controversial marriage amendment from taking effect. The amendment was approved Nov. 4 by 52 percent of California voters, but the legal action argues the passage of the [...]
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