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.
Troy Reimink of the Grand Rapids Press notes a bit of irony, the fact that the state of Michigan is receiving subsidies to pay for the health care of early retirees — money authorized by the health care reform bill that Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is suing to have struck down in federal court. [...]
After receiving $140 million in federal funds for the program, the state of Michigan is now accepting applications for health insurance from high-risk applicants with pre-existing conditions. But it won’t be cheap:
The Obama administration released a series of reports Wednesday touting the immediate benefits to every state as a result of the passage of the health care reform bill. Though many provisions of the bill are not in effect yet, the administration points to several provisions that are in effect or soon will be that will [...]
Ben Smith at Politico notes that all three of the attorneys general who led the way in filing lawsuits against the federal government over the passage of health care reform lost in their Republican primaries for governor — including Michigan’s Mike Cox. Henry McMaster of South Carolina and Bill McCollum of Florida are the other [...]
Michigan is one of several states where the state government lacks the authority to enforce key provisions of the health care reform law passed by Congress earlier this year. The New York Times reports that the state cannot, under current law, enforce many of the laws provisions requiring certain types of coverage and restrictions on [...]
The first legal challenge to the historic health care reform bill passed earlier this year to be heard in court is not the one filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and more than a dozen other state AGs, it’s one filed by the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center on behalf of several Michigan [...]
Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor at the New Republic and a Michigan resident, has a column at Kaiser Health News criticizing Attorney General Mike Cox for joining a lawsuit seeking to overturn the recent health care reform bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Noting that there are currently around 1.1 million [...]
At least a thousand people turned out at the Grand Traverse Civic Center Saturday for a tea party rally that lasted around three hours and featured speakers, music and appeals for conservatives to commit themselves to organize into a stronger political movement.
Building on his health care reform lawsuit popularity, Michigan’s Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor Mike Cox will spend his weekend touring the state with the Tea Party Express. Cox will be on the bus tour as it swings across Michigan’s upper peninsula into lower northern Michigan then west Michigan to Detroit. His spokesman, [...]
Embattled Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) won’t seek re-election, the Grand Rapids Press reports. The 58-year-old former state police trooper has served in Congress for nine terms — that’s 18 years. But he has come under considerable fire since last summer from both conservatives and liberals.
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