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.
Figures released by the Williams Institute in California show that the 2010 census was a banner year for self-reported same-sex couples in Michigan.
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is under fire for an obscenity-laced voicemail he left Saturday for a Republican candidate for the Macomb County Commission. The call from Smith was prompted after Republican James Perna and the Macomb County Republican Party sent out a mailer saying the Smith family has relied on public sector employment. Perna [...]
The television commercials in the races for the GOP and Democratic nominations for governor are heating up. On the Democratic side, House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) has had two television commercials hit the airwaves, while Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has had none. An article in the Detroit News says Bernero is promising his message [...]
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is taking heat for comments he made in an interview with the Two Guys Named Joe podcast. The podcast, which features Democratic political consultant Joe DiSano and Republican political consultant Joe Munem, is an exploration of all things Michigan politics. The two consultants were at the Democratic Party’s nominating convention [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm says her budget proposal, released on Feb. 11, protects education spending. The Macomb Daily reports:
Dan Kildee, the former Genesee County treasurer, has dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. “It is now clear that the effort to unite progressive organizations and organized labor around a single candidate will not occur. With me in this race, that support will be splintered.,” Kildee said in a prepared statement released [...]
With the field of candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor finally set, political insiders and pundits are divided on which candidate will emerge from the pack while the public asks, “Who are those people?”
The man behind some of the most “reprehensible” — in the words of John McCain — GOP attack ads in recent memory is getting involved in Michigan’s gubernatorial race. According to campaign finance reports, Scott Howell and Company, whose partners were involved with infamous campaigns ads attacking Max Cleland and Harold Ford, has been hired as a media consultant by Oakland County Sheriff and GOP candidate for governor Mike Bouchard.
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