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.
Michigan residents could vote via absentee ballots for any reason under election reforms proposed by Republicans last week, but because the reform also requires voters to pick up their ballots in person, the change might not make it much easier for some people to vote.
Oakland County Clerk and Ruth Johnson has made the focal point of her campaign for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State a five point plan to keep foreigners from voting in Michigan elections, something that state and local elections officials say is a non-existent problem in the state.
Thousands of people may have been wrongly removed from the state’s registered voter database due to a botched list management effort undertaken by the Michigan Bureau of Elections under pressure from the Bush administration. Between July 2006 and June 2009, state officials working under Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land conducted an unprecedented centralized and computer-assisted purge of the state’s voter database, according to the nonpartisan voting rights group the Michigan Election Reform Alliance.
Prepares to monitor Tuesday’s primary in two counties, the general in November
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