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.
Maura Corrigan, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, has placed a bet on a candidate in the GOP governor’s battle. Campaign finance records show Corrigan, who is part of the court’s conservative wing, donated the statutory maximum — $3,400 — to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard’s campaign for governor. This could raise potential conflicts of [...]
LANSING — While Gov. Jennifer Granholm mulls over the Michigan State Police budget bill, Lansing area developers Joel Ferguson and Gary Granger are crossing their fingers she will sign the deal because it holds a provision to sell their new downtown building to the state.
State Rep. Rick Jones, a Republican from Grand Ledge, is stepping up his attacks on the proposed new state police headquarters in downtown Lansing. The former Eaton County sheriff sent a letter to fellow GOP Caucus members last week in which he called the deal with developers Gary Granger and Joel Ferguson “corruption” and “a [...]
LANSING — State Rep. Rick Jones came out swinging Monday in an attempt to end a controversial lease agreement for a new Michigan State Police headquarters in the state capital, calling the project “a scheme,” and said if the state moves ahead with the lease agreement, the new building downtown will be “a monument to stupidity.”
LANSING — The Republican-controlled state Senate has passed a measure which could impact the final phase of construction on a new Michigan State Police headquarters. The building, which is being constructed downtown at the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Grand Avenue, was being built based on a lease agreement signed with the Granholm administration.
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