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.
Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Synder, who has been criticized by Michigan’s conservative establishment, is set to make his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination official on Tuesday in Grand Rapids.
Four months after Gov. Jennifer Granholm publicly tasked her No. 2, John Cherry, with leading an effort to streamline government, Michigan’s official unemployment rate has hit 14.1 percent, the state is undergoing the steepest decline in revenue in at least a half century, and the state legislature is moving ahead with plans to combine two departments, Natural Resources and Environmental Quality.
Politicians including former Republican Gov. John Engler, Democratic U.S. Carl Levin, and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) have recently suggested that Michigan might be a good place for the detainees now held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba.
Sen. Carl Levin has joined former Governor John Engler in endorsing the idea of holding the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in Michigan in order to bring federal dollars into the state. CQ Politics reports:
Former Michigan Gov. John Engler has an interesting idea to bring some revenue into Michigan: Turn the UP into Guantanamo Bay North. The Detroit Free Press reports:
From an email exchange this afternoon: Robin Marty: Subject: our vp pick can totally beat up your vp pick [LINK]
Global trend of privatization hits home, tied into Great Lakes Compact Felton, Calif., is a hippie town hidden among the coastal redwoods in the mountains outside Santa Cruz. Past the verdant state park, across the railroad track and down a steep hillside, you will find the best natural swimming hole I’ve ever had the pleasure [...]
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will maintain a solid presence in Michigan leading up to the Jan. 15 Michigan Presidential Primary. Cindy Pine, the Hamburg Township Supervisor and the former chair of the Livingston County Republican Party, said McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” will land at 2 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Crystal Gardens [...]
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