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.
Gubernatorial candidate Rick “tough nerd” Snyder is the absolute leader when it comes to spending on television advertising, according to a recent report by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. By analyzing television station records of campaign ad buys though May 31, MCFN has determined that Snyder has spent $1,336,893. Mike Cox has spent $527,737, Mike [...]
Campaign spending in the statewide races this year is two and a half times the level of spending at this time in 2002 — the last time all three offices had open seats — but candidates have not raised as much as in 2006 when incumbents had a strong fundraising advantage. This information comes from [...]
Three Republican candidates for governor – U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and state Sen. Tom George – have so far said they will use public financing money out of the Michigan State Campaign Fund in their race. The problem, as the Detroit Free Press reports, is that this fund is seriously [...]
In the wake of last week’s dismissal of all charges against five former Blackwater employees accused of opening fire in a public square in Baghdad and killing 17 unarmed civilians, the government of Iraq is preparing to take action against those guards on their own and warning other ex-Blackwater guards now working for other companies [...]
Rick DeVos, son of former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman Betsy and 2006 GOP gubernatorial nominee Dick DeVos, announced today that he is funding a massive art competition in Grand Rapids, WOOD TV 8 is reporting. The event, called ArtPrize, will feature displays throughout a three-square mile section of Grand Rapids and will run for two [...]
A group of citizens in Ada, Michigan has apparently succeeded in its petition drive to collect enough signatures to put a township board decision allowing Dick DeVos to build a helicopter pad at his home and use it to go back and forth. The Grand Rapids Press reports that they turned in more than 1,200 [...]
Amway heir and former Republican candidate for governor Dick DeVos managed to talk the Ada Township government into changing the rules to allow for helicopter takeoffs and landings in residential neighborhoods so he didn’t have to take anything so pedestrian as a car when he travels around. Now it looks like his fellow residents may [...]
If you’ve seen the new TV commercials from Amway lately, you’ve seen the first part of a campaign to revive that name and moribund domestic sales for the Michigan-based multi-level marketing company. The Associated Press reports:
Blackwater Worldwide, the private military contracting company founded by Michigan native Eric Prince, private disaster response project proposed by a former CEO for the private military company Triple Canopy. Earlier this month Prince promoted his company in a speech to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids. He was accompanied by his sister, Betsy DeVos, and [...]
Amway chief Dick DeVos, the 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate, has sent holiday greetings to supporters that read much more like a campaign announcement than a Christmas card. In the one-page, Dec. 13 e-mail entitled “A message from Dick DeVos,” he highlights state budget shortfalls and tax increases as problems and solicits ideas from readers, saying [...]
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