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 what Senate Democrats are calling a retaliatory move, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, removed Sen. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, from his assignment on the Campaign & Elections Oversight Committee. The Senate Minority Leader, who happens to be Schauer, makes recommendations to the majority leader on what committees he wants his members to be [...]
The Michigan and Senate and House are expected to come back from Michigan’s woods and forests and take a break from deer hunting Tuesday for a special session to take some action on possibly repealing the service tax on certain services that is expected to take effect on Dec. 1. The Legislature took its traditional [...]
The push to repel the recently passed sales tax on certain services is heating up in the Republican-controlled Senate with a Senate Finance Committee meeting set for noon on Tuesday to take testimony on Senate Bill 838 that will repeal the tax. House Bill 5198, which imposed a 6 percent sales tax on some 60 [...]
LANSING – With the budget crisis out of the way – for 30 days at least – the Michigan Senate is getting back to its normal schedule of 10 a.m. sessions Tuesday through Thursday. In a routine week filled with committee hearings, the Senate Families and Human Services Committee’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday of Ismael [...]
As Michigan lawmakers move to balance the state’s budget by changing the health insurance system for school employees, the lawmakers are eligible to receive state-paid health insurance for life after only six years of service. According to Leslie Fritz, spokesperson for the Dept. of State Budget, this benefit is not available to any other type [...]
LANSING – The flap over the vote for the sales tax increase in the wee hours Monday morning has led Senate Democrats to introduce Senate Resolution 114 Thursday to amend the Senate Standing Rules to ensure there are no secret votes. The trouble began around 3 a.m. Monday when the Senate was voting to give [...]
LANSING – They missed the midnight deadline for averting a partial state government shutdown, but it appears after a day of bills funneling back and forth between the Senate and House a shutdown was averted early Monday morning. Shortly before 3 a.m. Monday morning the Senate voted 19-19 for the conference report for House Bill [...]
Both House and Senate continue in session at this hour, working on multiple bills to resolve the budget before the fiscal year ends at midnight tonight. If a budget is not passed by both houses before that time, a shutdown of non-essential services will begin. You can watch the sessions live at: MI House TV [...]
LANSING – The Senate adjourned shortly before midnight on Saturday, apparently no closer to a budget solution that will stop a government shutdown in some 24 hours. The Senate convened at noon today, but most of the day was spent at ease of the call of the chair as the Republicans and the Democrats spent [...]
LANSING — The Michigan Senate adjourned shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday, but not before approving a bill that will allow a sales tax on some services in the state to go forward. The Senate approved a substitute offered by Sen. Valde Garcia, R-Howell, for House Bill 5198 with a bipartisan vote of 24-13. Garcia’s amendment [...]
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