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.
In one of the more contentious Lansing City Council battles in recent memory, the familiar battles between business and labor are playing out — but with the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce supporting candidates that seem to reject their key policy positions.
The Ingham County Board of Commissioners are debating internally two resolutions which they think will address a “dysfunctional” road commission.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a GOP redistricting plan into law. The new law resets the state’s district maps for state house and senate elections as well as federal congressional elections.
With the 2010 census data now on record it’s time for the state to redraw its electoral districts, a process that several Michigan groups believe should be more transparent and open to public participation.
Last week’s unexpected resignation by Justice Elizabeth Weaver, a Republican, and subsequent replacement by Justice Alton Thomas Davis, a Democrat, may not only reshape the Michigan Supreme Court, it could change the entire electoral map for the state for the next ten years.
Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner put his expertise on public opinion polling as the founder of Practical Political Consulting to good work this week, exposing serious mathematical abnormalities in polling data put out by Research 2000, a Maryland-based political polling company. The polling company has been conducting weekly polls for the popular liberal blog DailyKos, [...]
The Detroit Free Press has an article about the court ruling last week that gave Mark Grebner — and everyone else — access to data on which party’s primary Michigan voters voted in during the 2008 election. They begin that article with a false dichotomy:
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that Practical Political Consulting, owned by Democratic Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner, has the right, as does anyone else, to access documents showing whether voters in the 2008 primaries voted Republican or Democrat. In the 2008 primary elections, voters at the polls could choose which party’s primary [...]
With House Speaker Andy Dillon and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, both opponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion, considering a run for the Democratic nomination for governor, traditional Democratic constituencies face a choice of which candidate to get behind in the primaries.
With the hoopla surrounding Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero’s announcement late last month that he was considering a run for the state’s highest office, very little attention has been paid to the fact that the White House and the Democratic National Committee have been involved in recruiting the mayor.
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