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.
As the Halloween budget deadline looms, concerns are growing over signs that the governor may veto funding for agricultural research and extension programs seen as critical to the state’s agricultural sector.
Michigan House lawmakers were on lockdown for most of the day on Tuesday as the leadership sought to push through a series of bills to raise revenue through a number of targeted niche taxes in order to reduce the depth and severity of budget cuts included in the conference committee reports that form the framework for the budget for the next fiscal year.
LANSING — Some Michigan House Democrats announced plans to push a constitutional amendment that would dock the pay of lawmakers for failing to pass balanced budgets in time. “Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay legislators who don’t get the job done,” said State Rep. Mike Huckleberry (D-Greenville). “We all took an oath of office to serve [...]
TRAVERSE CITY — Amid a global scarcity of clean drinking water, private corporations have seized control of much of the world’s water supply, but in Northern Michigan a politically connected grassroots movement is galvanizing around an alternative, more traditional, view of water — that it should be held in public trust for the benefit of all.
A bill to restrict the use of lindane, a pesticide used to treat lice and scabies in children, was passed overwhelming by the Michigan House earlier this year but appears stalled in the Senate where Majority Leader Mike Bishop has referred the legislation to Committee on Government Operations and Reform.
“The government operations committee is where things go to die,” said Rep. Dan Scripps, a Democrat from Leland sponsoring the House legislation.
Michigan spent $30 million dollars this year publicizing its value as a vacation destination, largely through the “Pure Michigan” media campaign. Lawmakers, especially those from the tourism-dependent North, say the money was well spent.
Incumbents were ousted across Northern Michigan in Tuesday’s primary. This Traverse City Record-Eagle editorial titled “Voters not accepting status quo” explains: The themes of the day appeared to be change and accountability — with some familiar-face fatigue thrown in for good measure. Outside Traverse City, in Garfield Township, which by population is the largest local [...]
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