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.
With legal documents increasingly available online to anyone, including identity thieves, a plan that would prohibit personal information such as Social Security numbers from appearing on certain legal documents was passed by the House Wednesday. The plan now heads to the Senate. Barb Byrum (D-Onondaga) introduced the legislation, saying: “Identity theft is a growing problem [...]
Should elected officials be politically savvy or should they be all about business? A majority of Michigan voters apparently wants them to be all about business. A recent survey has Michiganders saying a business background was more important in an elected official than political experience. The survey was conducted by Denno-Noor Research in partnership with [...]
Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land today made official what she had said in a preliminary report: There are not enough valid signatures on a petition to go ahead with a recall election against House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township. The petitioners filed 15,737 signatures with the Bureau of Elections on May 1. After [...]
Less than two months after Governor Jennifer Granholm signed legislation designed to grow the film industry in Michigan, the first studio is being planned. At a news conference in the shadow of the capitol dome, developers announced plans for City Center Studios. The new facility will be built in downtown Lansing just north of Oldsmobile [...]
The Michigan House of Representatives has approved a plan it says will create more than 29,000 jobs for Michigan workers. House members say their version of the bill strengthened the weaker plan that was approved by the Senate. House Democratic spokesman Greg Bird said that strength comes in the form of added projects for colleges [...]
The Michigan House of Representatives has passed the “Hire Michigan First” plan. House Democrats say the 12-bill package will ensure that Michigan workers get the first crack at jobs created by companies that benefit from state economic development programs or tax breaks. The plan will also crack down on companies that hire illegal workers, by [...]
Children allegedly forced into prostitution Joel Sheltrown is taking aim at human traffickers. State Rep. Sheltrown wants the Michigan Senate to take quick action on a House plan that will give law enforcement officers and prosecutors the tools they need to go after these criminals. His request comes after the discovery of an alleged child [...]
The push is on again in Michigan to ban talking on the cell phone and text messaging while driving. The bill, which came out of committee last week, is now heading to the house floor. Supporter say the bill could come for a vote as early as next week, but so far there has been [...]
A national report on education is out, and Gov. Jennifer Granholm says it confirms what we already knew: Higher education is important to Michigan’s future. The report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy in Washington, funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, focused on the attainment of higher education in what it calls [...]
With all the attention focused on the Obama visit, the Michigan House of Representatives quietly and without fanfare passed a measure that will ban the diversion of Great Lakes water. The plan which has been debated for almost a year, passed by the House Wednesday will toughen water bottling standards. It will lower the threshold [...]
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