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.
Update: The Bernero campaign said shortly after this post appeared that the listing of Malik Shabazz as an endorser was incorrect and that his name had been added to the list of endorsers by mistake. A spokesman said that while they wanted Shabazz’ endorsement, he had not given it. Shabazz then told the Messenger that [...]
Alma Wheeler Smith, the state House representative from Salem Township and former Democratic contender for governor, has announced she is endorsing Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero in the Democratic primary. Smith will make the formal announcement at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Ypsilanti. An undisclosed number of Washtenaw county Democrats will also endorse Bernero at the event.
An internal polling memo from the Bernero campaign leaked to the Michigan Messenger by a source inside the campaign shows Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s message and background could be enough for him to swing a win in the 2010 Democratic primary for governor. According to a memo from Michael Kulischek of the Colorado polling firm [...]
The television commercials in the races for the GOP and Democratic nominations for governor are heating up. On the Democratic side, House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) has had two television commercials hit the airwaves, while Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has had none. An article in the Detroit News says Bernero is promising his message [...]
Democrats in Michigan have always relied on the unions for the boots on the ground heavy lifting of campaigns. An endorsement from a large union comes with cash and manpower. And Democratic candidates for governor Andy Dillon and Virg Bernero are following that gospel, fighting for the union endorsements. Each has picked up sizable union [...]
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.
Correction: The central claim in this article has turned out to be false. Please read the full correction on the main story page.
Geoffery Feiger, an outspoken attorney from the Detroit area, is considering a second bid for the governor’s mansion in Lansing. Feiger won the nomination in 1998, and was defeated by incumbent John Engler. But that history is not slowing the man best known as Jack Kervorkian’s defense attorney down.
Lansing Mayor and Democratic candidate for governor Virg Bernero lambasted gubernatorial opponent Andy Dillon Thursday for failing to support health care reform. Dillon is a Redford Township Democrat and Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives. In an interview with the Michigan Information and Research Service (MIRS), a capitol subscription only newsletter, asked if he [...]
The gubernatorial campaign of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero is once again facing questions about back taxes owed by someone close to the mayor. This time, Bishop David Maxwell, the city’s director of Community and Faith Based Initiatives, is answering questions about his back taxes. City Pulse, a weekly newspaper in Lansing, reports Maxwell’s Lansing property [...]
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