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.
Republican Mike Nofs and Democrat Marty Griffin will face each other on the Nov. 3 ballot to fill the state senate seat vacated by Mark Schauer earlier this year. Democrat Schauer beat out Republican Tim Walberg to become the new congressman from the 7th District.
LANSING — Virgil Bernero on Wednesday racked up the endorsement of the city’s firefighters in his bid to be re-elected as mayor of Lansing. “Mayor Bernero has been an outspoken advocate for public safety in our community and has been supportive of the men and women of IAFF Local 421,” said Bryan Epling, president of [...]
LANSING — Mayor Virgil Bernero accepted the endorsement of the UAW Local 652 and the UAW Capital Area Community Action Program Council on Friday. The CAP Council represents 27,000 Lansing-area UAW workers.
The embattled Marquette Township Board of Trustees got bad news Thursday morning. The Marquette County Election Commission unanimously approved recall language for all seven trustees. Recall supporters now have until July 31 to collect 359 signatures of registered voters to put the trustees up for vote in November, the Marquette Mining Journal reports.
Officials in Jackson are gearing up to consider an anti-discrimination ordinance that’s likely to be a lightning rod for conservative activists who have been scrutinizing a similar human rights ordinance in Kalamazoo. After originally slated to be on the city council’s agenda for Tuesday’s meeting, the proposed Jackson ordinance is now scheduled for Aug. 11, according to Bill Ross, Jackson’s city manager.
Bay City Mayor Charles Brunner announced Friday he will seek to replace Rep. Jeff Mayes, D-Bay City. Mayes is term limited out. A story in the Friday Bay City Times online reports the first term mayor made the announcement at the American Legion Post. The 96th District covers the lower half of Bay County.
The entire Marquette Township Board of Trustees is facing the prospect of recall battles going into early next year. The reason? The Marquette Mining Journal reports that recall organizers have been angry with members who failed to support a water plan which would develop new wells in the Upper Peninsula township, instead relying on water [...]
Proponents of a new anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo have started an online petition to urge Kalamazoo voters to keep the ordinance, approved June 29, on the books, just as opponents have been collecting signatures to put the ordinance up for a public vote.
After a significant increase in reported bias crimes and related incidents in 2007, Michigan has reported a decrease in reported incidents for 2008. In 2007, the Detroit-based Triangle Foundation, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization which tracks hate-motivated crimes targeting the LGBT community, reported a 133-percent increase in such incidents. Last year, the [...]
LANSING — Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced this morning she has appointed a financial review team to scour the finance records of the troubled city of Ecorse, one of Detroit’s Downriver suburbs. The step could lead to the appointment of a financial manager for the city, in short a state take over of the city’s finances [...]
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