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 Michigan House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a plan proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to shift $208 million from the School Aid Fund to the General Fund. The two main budget funds in the state have different revenue streams and this year the School Aid Fund had higher revenues than expected while the General [...]
The AP reports that the Michigan Senate met briefly on Tuesday then adjourned until Sept. 7. That means there will be no serious work on the budget until after that date, leaving just over three weeks to fix the $302 million shortfall in this year’s budget and to pass multiple bills to set next year’s [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm held a press conference on Wednesday to propose ways to fix the budget shortfalls for the current fiscal year, 2010, and for the FY 2011, which begins on October 1. As is routinely the case, some cuts or shifts are necessary in the middle of the current year as a result of [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm released a statement Tuesday afternoon after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a state aid bill that will send more than $600 million in federal aid to Michigan — and $26.1 billion overall to the states — to fund Medicaid and prevent teacher layoffs. She said:
In a rather interesting development, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has endorsed Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero to be the next governor of Michigan, but House Speaker Andy Dillon is being a bit more reticent about endorsing his former rival in the Democratic primary. The Detroit News reports:
Long after the controversy over moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Michigan has blown over, Rep. Bart Stupak and Gov. Jennifer Granholm are working to get the federal government to reopen the Standish prison as a federal facility under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. The Bay City Times reports:
After being mentioned for a dozen jobs when President Obama first took office, and twice making a relatively short list of possible candidates for the Supreme Court, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is now being mentioned by Politico as one to watch as a new face in the administration after her term as governor ends. And she [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who appointed Robert Bobb as the emergency financial manager for the Detroit Public Schools, on Wednesday endorsed the idea of letting the people of Detroit vote on whether the school board should be disbanded and Mayor Dave Bing should be given control over the failing school system. The Detroit City Council is [...]
Gov. Granholm on Thursday announced that she had signed a compromise bill passed by the Michigan House and Senate for K-12 funding in FY 2011. The bill offers schools a modest $11 per pupil funding hike, a welcome respite after deep cuts to school funding last year forced schools to hastily cut programs and layoff [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the obvious on Thursday, saying that there was insufficient political courage in the Michigan legislature to pass legislation that would apply the sales tax to most services in order to shore up the state budget and prevent the steep budget cuts the state has faced on a yearly basis. The Detroit [...]
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