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.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is the latest candidate for statewide office to focus on new ways to protect the state from alleged dangers posed by immigrants. The Republican gubernatorial candidate announced today that rather than rely on the FBI to check the fingerprints of everyone arrested in the county his office will begin checking [...]
Congressional candidate Jason Allen and Secretary of State candidates State Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau) and Cameron Brown (R-Sturgis) are sponsors of a Senate bill that would enact Arizona-style immigration reforms in Michigan.
Since the 2000 presidential election — in which a highly controversial Florida ballot recount was supervised by an overtly partisan Secretary of State — there has been increasing focus on the risks of partisan election administration.
Michigan Democrats settled on election law expert and voting rights activist Jocelyn Benson as their candidate for Secretary of State back in April, but the Republican field of candidates remains crowded with no definite front runner, race watchers say.
The Michigan League of Conservation Voters has released its “signature accountability tool” — a directory of the positions taken by lawmakers on key environmental issues. Throughout the 2009-2010 legislative session the group tracked lawmaker performance on issues involving clean energy, environmental health, and funding for environmental protection.
Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson decided, for some odd reason, to join an already crowded field of contenders seeking the Republican nomination to be Michigan’s next secretary of state. Several months after several more prominent candidates — state Sen. Michelle McManus, state Sen. Cameron Brown, state Rep. Paul Scott and Calhoun County Clerk Anne Norlander [...]
Wayne State University law professor Jocelyn Benson has a clear lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State, according to a recent poll of the Capital Caucus, a bipartisan group of Michigan political insiders. On the Republican side the candidate choice is less clear. The group gives State Sen. Michelle McManus [...]
In a note to supporters yesterday Republican Secretary of State candidate and State Sen. Michelle McManus of Lake Leelanau promised to work to repeal the newly enacted health care reform bill which she characterized as a “government takeover of our health care.” It’s unclear what work she could or would do as Secretary of State, [...]
While the state of Michigan has had virtually no actual voter fraud in its entire history, the Republican candidates for Secretary of State who spoke at a recent luncheon event made voter fraud one of the primary issues on their agenda.
Cameron Lynch, a Republican strategist with The Lynch Group, says Republican candidates should zip it when it comes to social conservative issues. In a blog on Politico over the weekend, the strategist used the example of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s November win.
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