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.
Battle lines are drawing as the state of Michigan considers a proposal to provide health insurance coverage to the non-married partners of state employees for both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships.
After already passing a bill to allow liquor sales on Sundays beginning at 7 am rather than noon and having it vetoed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the Michigan legislature passed a compromise bill to fix the things she didn’t like about it and sent it back to the governor’s desk for her signature. Granholm’s spokesperson [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm was given the Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Thursday in Stockholm. The award was given for her efforts to promote clean energy jobs in the United States and Sweden. Granholm and King Gustaf co-hosted a conference on global warming in Michigan in 2008.
Detroit Public Schools emergency manager Robert Bobb plans to propose a plan to Gov. Granholm for the state of Michigan to pay off more than $300 million in debt incurred by DPS over the last decade. The Detroit News reports:
In a Peter Luke column explaining why Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed a bill allowing the sale of liquor on Sunday mornings — a bill she says she supports but for a provision on giving free samples — the sponsor of the bill says that despite the fact that the bill passed both chambers with a [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed one bill and part of another that were part of the budget compromises for FY 2011, which began nearly two weeks ago on Oct. 1. She vetoed completely a bill that would have allowed sales of liquor on Sunday mornings, saying that she supports the bill but it contained language that [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the last of the budget bills passed by the legislature on Thursday, officially putting the budget to bed — until the middle of the fiscal year when they measure actual revenue vs. expected revenue and have to make adjustments, that is. Legislators closed a $484 million gap in next year’s budget [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm was at the White House earlier this week as President Obama signed into law a bill to extend $30 billion in loans to small businesses. There’s a good reason for that: Michigan is eligible for up to $78 million in funding from that bill, which should help to spur small business formation [...]
An editorial in the Detroit News points out the obvious about the budget deal just reached between Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R) and House Speaker Andy Dillon (D), that it is just another temporary bandaid that intentionally avoids doing anything to solve the state’s fiscal problems. The editorial board writes:
Yesterday’s unexpected resignation by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Weaver was the equivalent of a 100-megaton bomb tossed into this year’s judicial elections; the reverberations from this one may be felt for years to come. As the Detroit News reports, Michigan Republicans are incensed over the shocking announcement from (ostensibly) one of their own. Weaver [...]
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