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.
As the Michigan House prepares for a possible vote today on the controversial anti-bullying bill that passed the Senate last week, legislators are reacting to the analysis of that bill by a prominent First Amendment scholar published earlier this week.
Ari Adler, spokesperson for Michigan Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), says the controversial anti-bullying bill passed last week by the state senate is not what is likely to pass the House.
Thursday saw a flurry activity over the Republican-controlled Senate’s passage of what critics are calling ‘license to bully’ legislation on Wednesday morning.
A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing).
Michigan can expect a push in the state legislature to pass Right to Work legislation following the end of the summer break at the capitol.
The Michigan House has approved the controversial education budget, meeting the governor’s May 31 deadline with time to spare. The bill is on its way governor’s desk.
Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing) slammed the GOP education budget Wednesday in a speech on the floor as the state Senate prepared to pass the contentious budget deal that cuts education funding significantly. “It is a budget that robs our kid’s future. Taking 400 million out of a fund that was supposed to [...]
Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday announced the details of a compromise on education reached with the Republican leadership in both chambers of the state legislature, which he said should help complete the budget by his self-imposed deadline.
LANSING — Thousands of Michiganders gathered on the East lawn of the Michigan Capitol Wednesday to protest Republican legislative proposals that, in their view, undermine labor rights and budget proposals that balance the state’s budget on the backs of seniors and the poor.
Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican leadership in the state legislature announced that they had reached a tentative deal on budget matters that would modify some of Snyder’s proposals and phase in others over time.
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