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.
Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Flint) has announced he will retire from the U.S. Congress in 2012, after serving 18 terms representing Flint.
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.
Dan Kildee, the former Genesee County treasurer, has dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. “It is now clear that the effort to unite progressive organizations and organized labor around a single candidate will not occur. With me in this race, that support will be splintered.,” Kildee said in a prepared statement released [...]
Following up on today’s report about the Democratic primary for governor, Tim Skubick is now reporting that Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero is likely to pick up the endorsement of the United Auto Workers. From Skubick’s blog at The Oakland Press:
With the field of candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor finally set, political insiders and pundits are divided on which candidate will emerge from the pack while the public asks, “Who are those people?”
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has endorsed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in the Michigan Republican primary for governor. The announcement was made on Cox’s gubernatorial campaign website. From the release:
Peter Luke has a thoughtful column looking at the obstacles that Rep. Andy Dillon must overcome in order to win the Democratic nomination for governor. The first and most obvious obstacle, Luke notes, is that Dillon is right at the center of the establishment that every other candidate is going to be running against:
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.
Former Congressman Joe Schwarz says he is leaning towards an independent run for the governor’s office this year. He is expected to make an announcement this week, and the Battle Creek Enquirer reports that announcement could come as soon as Wednesday. “I’m leaning toward doing it,” Schwarz, 72, told the Enquirer.
Perhaps demonstrating the power of widely seen campaign commercials, venture capitalist Rick Snyder is making his move in the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor and is now in third place according to a new Epic/MRA poll of 400 Republican and 400 Democratic voters. The Detroit Free Press reports:
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