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.
Governor Granholm has signed into effect a new law that will require the state’s troubled film office to issue twice yearly reports about how Michigan’s generous film subsidies are used.
A dozen state environmental and energy groups are asking governor-elect Rick Snyder to maintain the Granholm administration’s policy on permits for coal plants.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
The Missaukee Circuit Court has granted Attorney General Mike Cox permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Wolverine Power Cooperative which claims that the state did not have the authority to deny an air permit for a coal plant planned for Rogers City.
Former Governor William Milliken has joined the Michigan Women’s Justice and Clemency Project in asking Governor Jennifer Granholm to free 28 female inmates who they say deserve clemency or commutation and early parole. Jack Lessenberry reports that the group claims that the women, all convicted murderers, acted in self defense but got unfair treatment in [...]
As Gov.-elect Rick Snyder was in Colorado and California last week immersed in high intensity workshops, the questions about Michigan’s tax revenues loomed large in Michigan. The state faces an estimated one billion dollar deficit in the coming year, and proposals from both parties could add as much as another $1.5 billion to the deficit.
Local law enforcement in Emmett Township and Calhoun County are threatening to arrest citizen activists and journalists who go to the Kalamazoo River to check on claims that the oil has been cleaned up there — apparently without any legal authority for such arrests.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and staff of the Department of Education sent a message to 15,000 school districts and 5000 college and universities Tuesday: Bullying is not acceptable and schools may have an obligation to intervene under federal law.
As state officials begin a probe into the foreclosure activities of several top national lenders, a Lansing family has been waging a battle with JP Morgan Chase in an attempt to straighten out what they call faulty billings.
A partial veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm of the state’s school aid budget has schools and lawmakers struggling with the future. School districts have been planning budgets since July 1, but are unable to nail down exactly how much money they will receive under state school funding. Granholm vetoed the measure earlier this week, citing [...]
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