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 Gov. Rick Snyder, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees this morning, unveiled a budget plan full of deep spending cuts and new taxes on seniors, the poor and the middle class to offset a business tax cut.
A West Michigan lawmaker introduced legislation Wednesday to eliminate the state’s controversial and oft-slammed Michigan Business Tax and its 21 percent surcharge.
Former State Rep. Steve Bieda admits that he crafted the often criticized Michigan Business Tax in 2007. The bill he authored was eventually adopted by the state to replace the Single Business Tax, which was just as hated. The bill that passed was laden with incentives and loopholes — and tagged with a 22 percent [...]
The Michigan Senate passed a bill to create an amnesty period during which those who owe back taxes to the state can make good without additional fines or any threat of imprisonment. The law applies to those who failed to file a return, those who did not pay taxes that they owed and those who [...]
With state revenues crashing as a result of the economic downturn and the state’s high unemployment rate pushing up required spending, there is now renewed talk in Lansing about the possibility of changing the state’s flat tax on income into a graduated income tax that takes a higher percentage from those with higher incomes.
The Michigan House of Representatives approved the Senate substitute of House Bill 5408 during an emergency session Saturday afternoon by a vote of 66-42 that put an end to the 6 percent sales tax on certain services. “The Michigan sales tax is repealed upon signature by the governor,” said Rep. Michael Sak, D-Grand Rapids, who [...]
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 [...]
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