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.
Tim Skubick has a post on his blog about Gov. Granholm’s latest move in an elaborate chess game to force the Republican-controlled Senate to vote for more revenue, something they have so far refused to do. And he rightly says that the outcome will be a measure of her power and that of the education [...]
After nearly three weeks of using a procedural trick to keep six budget bills already passed by both houses of the state legislature from being sent to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Senate Majority Leader finally transmitted those bills to the governor’s desk for a signature or veto on Tuesday. Along with those bills, Bishop also sent [...]
LANSING — A tense encounter in a state Capitol elevator between two state senators, Detroit Democrat Irma Clark-Coleman and Saginaw Republican Roger Kahn, has sparked calls for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, a Rochester Republican, to censure Kahn. Clark-Coleman, 72, alleges that Kahn, 64, had a confrontation following Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearings in which [...]
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