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.
A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote.
In an opinion that voting rights advocates are celebrating as a victory for election transparency, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has stated that voted ballots are public documents subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. “A person must be allowed to inspect or examine voted ballots, which are not traceable to the individual [...]
DETROIT — Voter turnout has been dismal during this year’s special election and the election primary, but City Clerk Janice Winfrey expects a higher turnout for today’s election. Winfrey predicted that 20-25 percent of the city’s 572,000 voters will cast a ballot, up from the 14 percent that voted in the special election and the [...]
American Family Association of Michigan President Gary Glenn says the city of Kalamazoo is out of step with other Midwest communities because it adopted a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance which protected citizens from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on, among other things, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. In an email to [...]
The Ingham County Election Commission voted unanimously this morning to reject proposed language for a recall of Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The Lansing State Journal reports a 52-year-old corrections officer from Omer is attempting to recall Granholm because of her decisions to close prisons and provide early release for some of the state’s prisoners. The cuts [...]
LANSING — Concerned with the party’s electoral fortunes in 2010, many Michigan Democrats were caught off guard on Friday when State Rep. Pam Byrnes announced she would introduce legislation aimed at reversing the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage OK’d by voters in 2004.
DETROIT — Newly elected Mayor Dave Bing won’t have as much competition in his race to secure a full mayoral term as had been anticipated. With top contenders such as City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr., former Deputy Mayor Freman Hendrix, and Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans out of the race, Bing’s most well-known opponent [...]
The deadline to file to run for elected offices in the city of Lansing is 4 p.m. today, and as of 9:45 p.m. on Monday the ballot had 13 candidates vying for six offices. The six offices up for election are mayor, city clerk, two council member at large posts, and council seats for the [...]
The Detroit Police Department’s (DPD) second deputy chief James Tate, 34, announced Tuesday that he will be running for a seat in city council November’s general election. According to the Detroit Free Press, Tate told members of DPD’s senior management team that he will be resigning after a five-year tenure as spokesman the department.
The U.S. congressional race for Michigan’s 9th District is shaping up as a microcosm of the presidential election in Michigan: an evenly divided red-blue battleground whose recent voting patterns closely follow national trends. The contest has already seen angry confrontations between the candidates’ supporters, dueling videographers seeking damning footage, and now a candidate with the [...]
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