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 administration of Gov. Rick Snyder, responding to weeks of pressure from various groups, announced Tuesday morning that instead of eliminating the Earned Income Tax Credit — as originally proposed in February — it would be kept at a six percent of the federal credit.
Stopping Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposal to end the Earned Income Tax credit tops perennial concerns around abortion and gay rights, said Paul Long, president and CEO of the Lansing-based Michigan Catholic Conference, last week.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero was at the Capitol Wednesday, joining thousands of union members and retirees to protest Governor Snyder’s budget proposal and promote collective bargaining rights for unions.
A group led by one of Gov. Rick Snyder’s top campaign advisers, John Yob, has put out a Youtube video and may soon start running TV commercials in support of the governor’s proposal to significantly shift the tax burden from businesses to working families, the poor and senior citizens.
Groups as varied as the American Association of Retired People, labor unions and the Michigan League for Human Services are launching a series of protests and rallies this week to challenge Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposals and bills that would weaken unions.
Gilda Jacobs, former state senator and now president of the Michigan League for Human Services, had an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press over the weekend with some eye-opening numbers on poverty in the state of Michigan.
Gov. Snyder’s budget proposal would represent a major shift in the tax burden in the state of Michigan, significantly reducing the taxes paid by businesses and replacing the revenue by a huge tax increase on seniors, the poor and the working class.
The budget balancing plans of the Republican-led Michigan government contains many controversial items, but perhaps the most unpopular is bound to be the elimination of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which helps keep hundreds of thousands of state residents out of poverty.
As expected, Michigan Senate Republicans submitted a bill on Tuesday that would eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit, which goes to hundreds of thousands of the working poor in this state.
LANSING — A proposal to eliminate the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit floated last month by Michigan House Speaker James ‘Jase’ Bolger has defenders of the credit lining up political forces while opponents appear to be softening their position.
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