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 Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived in Michigan with encampments in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Since Friday activists in Lansing have camped out in downtown Reutter Park despite a city ordinance that prohibits use of the park after 10 pm without written permission.
State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) says reports that he called Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones’ church to ask to participate in a rally last week at the Capitol are wrong.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote.
A series of severe storms in the Lansing area has crippled the Michigan Public Service Commission, shutting the state program down until phone lines and flooding can be addressed.
The city of Lansing has landed at the number two spot on a national list indicating the area has the second cheapest real estate in the nation.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero introduced his 2012 city budget to the Lansing City Council last night. The budget includes an estimated $20 million deficit caused by declining property values and proposed cuts in state revenue sharing.
Ingham county is ready to pass a new law requiring businesses to disclose their stores of chemicals in order to help emergency responders know what materials they may have to deal with during a disaster, but they are exempting the contents of three pipelines that run through the county.
The Lansing City Council Public Safety Committee met on Tuesday to discuss a controversial new ordinance which would allow the city to regulate marijuana dispensaries. The issue has come up in communities all over Michigan since voters approved medical marijuana legislation in 2008. The new law went into effect in 2009. At issue is whether [...]
LANSING — A sizable crowd gathered at the state’s capitol Saturday night to greet the Tea Party Express bus convoy. Michigan State Police estimated the crowd at 800, while the Detroit Free Press’s Dawson Bell put the crowd at over 1,000 and Tea Party Express organizer announced from the steps of the capitol the crowd [...]
The gubernatorial campaign of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero is once again facing questions about back taxes owed by someone close to the mayor. This time, Bishop David Maxwell, the city’s director of Community and Faith Based Initiatives, is answering questions about his back taxes. City Pulse, a weekly newspaper in Lansing, reports Maxwell’s Lansing property [...]
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