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.
The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday announced the details of a compromise on education reached with the Republican leadership in both chambers of the state legislature, which he said should help complete the budget by his self-imposed deadline.
Peter Luke reports that Gov. Rick Snyder and the Republican leadership in both houses of the state legislature have apparently reached a compromise on K-12 funding that will reduce the size of anticipated cuts.
The key committees in the Michigan House and Senate have passed budget bills with cuts of varying sizes for K-12 education funding in FY 2012.
Despite announcement of an agreement on tax reform measures, Gov. Rick Snyder and Republicans in the legislature are still at odds over how deeply to cut state spending on K-12 education.
Democrats in the Michigan legislature attempted yesterday to pass a bill that would reduce proposed cuts in funding for K-12 schools by $270 million but the Republican majority rejected the legislation. Rep. Brandon Dillon of Grand Rapids, sponsor of the bill, reacted in a press release:
At least 150 school systems in the state of Michigan lack necessary reserves and may have a difficult time surviving the massive cuts to education spending proposed by Gov. Snyder and the Republican-led legislature.
The Democratic caucus in the Michigan legislature have launched a website that allows you to see how much the proposed cuts in school funding will cost in every school district in the state. Take a look and see what those cuts will cost your childrens’ schools.
A new poll commissioned by the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV shows mixed results on the package of budget cuts proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder, with voters rejecting the K-12 budget cuts but supporting the cuts in revenue sharing.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees this morning, unveiled a budget plan full of deep spending cuts and new taxes on seniors, the poor and the middle class to offset a business tax cut.
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