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.
DETROIT — Michigan House lawmakers approved a bill package on Thursday that would lease the Detroit-owned Cobo Convention Center — home of the North American International Auto Show — to a regional authority.
The legislation calls for a 30-year lease of the riverside convention center to an authority with board members representing Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties in exchange for $280 million in expansion and renovation funds to upgrade Cobo in order to keep the auto show in Detroit. In recent months, as state and local officials have bickered over the ownership of Cobo, auto show organizers have been looking at venues outside the city that could host the annual expo.
Now that Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is out of the running for the GOP nomination for governor, is another prominent political figure in the state’s most populous county eying the state’s top job?
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson will not run for governor, the long-time Republican announced today. According to The Detroit News, Patterson said he couldn’t justify being away from his desk as CEO of Oakland County for more than a year to run for higher office. Patterson’s last jab at statewide office was in a [...]
After forming an exploratory committee in November, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Thursday that he intends on declaring his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor in 2010 sometime this summer, the Detroit Free Press reports. Cox made the announcement after giving a speech on the state’s economy at the Canton Economic Club Luncheon, [...]
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson suggested Monday morning that if consensus cannot be reached on the future of Detroit’s Cobo Hall, the North American International Auto Show could move north of 8 Mile Road to his county. Patterson said auto show could be moved to the defunct Pontiac Centerville facility that has 1 million [...]
A new poll shows U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Holland appearing to catch up to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson in the 2010 Republican primary race for governor.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said Thursday morning that he will make a decision by Easter on whether to run for governor, The Grand Rapids Press reports.
Organized labor says the push to make Michigan a so-called Right to Work state by conservative groups and individuals from out of state is designed to end collective bargaining, drive wages down, kill unions and damage the middle class. “This is a standard-of-living issue more than a labor issue,” said Brent Gillette, the national field [...]
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