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.
As the Michigan House prepares for a possible vote today on the controversial anti-bullying bill that passed the Senate last week, legislators are reacting to the analysis of that bill by a prominent First Amendment scholar published earlier this week.
Advocates for a law to prohibit bullying and provide school districts with the tools to address the problem were dealt a stinging rebuke Wednesday morning in the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate.
The Michigan Senate may take up a non-enumerated anti-bullying bill Tuesday morning in its regular session.
A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing).
Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Flint) has announced he will retire from the U.S. Congress in 2012, after serving 18 terms representing Flint.
LANSING — State lawmakers say the race to reform Michigan’s school code to qualify for millions in federal “Race to the Top” dollars should include passage of the controversial anti-bullying legislation called Matt’s Law.
LANSING — With the gears of government officially frozen in time, Michigan politicians expressed dismay at finding themselves embroiled in a second governmental shut down in as many years.
“I would shut it down rather than have these cuts. We’re going to lose out ability to function as a state with these cuts,” State Sen. John Gleason said.
LANSING — With time running out rapidly before the operation of Michigan’s government grinds to a halt, Republican leadership in the Senate brought a piece of legislation to the floor which would increase Michigan’s income tax to 4.8 percent and raise nearly $800 million in additional revenues for the state. The bill failed in a [...]
LANSING — Austin Murphy was a bright, caring Bridgeman, Mich. student who made friends with those who needed one. He loved animals and volunteered at two veterinary clinics. He was also the victim of bullying so severe that, just shy of his 17th birthday, the boy whose motto was “Just play” took his own life [...]
LANSING — Nearly 200 people from around the state, most of them teenagers, rallied at the Capitol last week asking the state Senate to pass an anti-bullying law, called Matt’s Safe Schools Law. The bill successfully passed the state House last year and Gov. Jennifer Granholm has said that if the bill passes the Republican-controlled [...]
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