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.
Last week the Michigan Supreme Court held hearings on the constitutionality of two budget proposals that amount to tax increases, one on high-earning state residents and the other on the pensions of former public employees.
A new report from the group United for Fair Economy says that if the states adopted progressive tax systems rather than their current regressive ones, they could eliminate their budget deficits and produce surpluses. And that includes Michigan.
Stateline.org reports on another state, Maine, that is facing similar problems to those in Michigan — flagging state revenue due to a shift in how people spend money and hard economic times. Unlike Michigan, however, the legislature in Maine has recognized the problem and is putting a solution in front of voters. The need to [...]
A new poll from Epic/MRA reveals that Michigan voters are very upset about the steep cuts to K-12 school funding in the new budget — and that they want at least some revenue increases to prevent further cuts in the future. WXYZ Channel 7 reports on the new poll, which showed an overwhelming percentage of [...]
Calling proposed budget cuts “devastating,” the Michigan League for Human Services, a century-old non-profit organization that advocates for low-income residents in the state, released a report demanding a long-term solution to Michigan’s budget problems that allows the state to adequately fund social welfare programs that are increasingly relied on during a time of economic recession. [...]
With state revenues crashing as a result of the economic downturn and the state’s high unemployment rate pushing up required spending, there is now renewed talk in Lansing about the possibility of changing the state’s flat tax on income into a graduated income tax that takes a higher percentage from those with higher incomes.
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