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.
Pontiac could end up with gaps in police service as a result of contract changes approved by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners this week.
In a speech at the Detroit Regional Chamber today Gov. Jennifer Granholm said that a new bridge over the Detroit River would create tens of thousands of permanent jobs and improve tourism and international trade between the U.S. and Canada, and she urged state legislators to approve funding for bridge construction by June 1, the [...]
Less than a day after announcing that he would file a lawsuit to prevent enforcement of a statewide smoking ban in bars and restaurants, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson changed his mind and withdrew his challenge to the law. Saying he got 70 phone calls and 30 emails complaining about the suit, he said [...]
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson says he will go to court to seek an injunction to prevent the state’s smoking ban from going into effect, calling it a “quintessential unfunded mandate” that the counties cannot afford to enforce, the Detroit Free Press reports. Patterson notes that his county alone has 4,600 restaurants and bars [...]
An aspect of Governor Granholm’s budget proposal that is already drawing controversy is the plan to reduce Department of Corrections costs by allowing well behaved inmates to get out of jail earlier, the Detroit Free Press reports. Under this plan inmates would be awarded credit for each misconduct free month, a practice that prison officials [...]
The onslaught of radio, internet and billboard attacks bubbling up in the Republican primary for the nomination for governor is continuing to draw criticism from the candidates themselves. As I reported this morning, the campaign of Ann Arbor business Rick Snyder sent a scathing letter to Mike Cox, the sitting attorney general, and another candidate, [...]
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, one of Michigan’s most high-profile elected Republicans, told an audience earlier today that he’s planning on seeking another term in 2012. Barely through the first-year of his current four-year term — his fifth term overall — Patterson elaborated on his future plans at a Leadership Oakland breakfast meeting, according [...]
DETROIT — After a nearly yearlong election spree spurred by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, city residents have reached the grand election finale. Tuesday’s municipal election will be the fourth election day voters will have faced in the span of 10 months. Low turnout due to voter fatigue and voter apathy plagued the special election and the regular Aug. 4 primary, with just 14 percent of voters casting a ballot.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard has garnered the endorsement of GOP leader and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson in his bid for the governor’s mansion. The announcement came this morning WJR talk radio and was made by Bouchard’s running mate Terri Lynn Land, reports MLive.com.
Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land surprised supporters Thursday morning announcing that she will not seek the governor’s office in 2010, as had been anticipated. Instead, Land, a Republican from Byron Center, threw her support behind Mike Bouchard, the Oakland County sheriff who unsuccessfully tried to unseat U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2006.
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