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.
State and local officials held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce a push to eliminate Michigan’s foreclosure-by-advertisement law.
A group of biologists is asking Gov. Jennifer Granholm to veto legislation which would establish a commission to consider establishing a moose hunt in the state’s upper peninsula, according to an Associated Press report.
State lawmakers are preparing to pass one of three budgets left for approval prior to the state’s new fiscal year, which begins Oct 1. Both chambers of the legislature have approved 12 of 15 state departmental budgets already, reports MLive.com. Still waiting for approval are budgets for general government, human services and transportation are still [...]
A spokesperson for Gov. Jennifer Granholm Tuesday said Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) was “wrong” when he characterized the freeze on the state’s anti-bullying legislation. In an interview with Michigan Messenger, Kuipers, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, said the legislation was stalled because lawmakers were having trouble defining bullying.
State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, has introduced legislation to give worker’s compensation to undocumented workers in Michigan. “We’re only one of two states in the nation that does not allow workers that are undocumented to compensate when they are injured on the job,” WILX, the NBC affiliate in Lansing, quotes the first term [...]
Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon says he is gearing up for a battle over the budget, and that his reported cuts-only budgets are not intended to be voted on but are designed to show the public how damaging such a budget would be in order to boost support for major reforms and new revenues.
DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing traveled to Lansing Tuesday morning to urge state lawmakers to introduce and pass legislation that would raise the cap on short-term loans so that the city can borrow enough money to avoid bankruptcy. Because this is Bing’s first meeting with state legislature, he told the Detroit Free Press that much [...]
A bill that will allow a second adult to adopt a child — and thus share in the legal responsibilities of caring for the child — has passed its first hurdle in the process of becoming law. In a party line vote the bill was sent from the House Judiciary Committee this morning for consideration [...]
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