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.
The House Republican leadership says it will delay approving the creation of a statewide health insurance exchange, in part to await the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the health care reform law which mandates the creation of the exchanges.
Michigan is one of a dozen states that have taken no action to implement state-based health care exchanges in advance of the Affordable Care Act coming into full force in 2014.
Freshman Congressman Justin Amash (R-Cascade Twp.) says the nation’s capitol is even more dysfunctional that the state’s capitol.
The House Committee on Oversight, Reform and Ethics will hold hearings Tuesday on two piece of legislation to prohibit public employers from extending partner benefits to adults who live with public employees.
The Michigan House has approved the controversial education budget, meeting the governor’s May 31 deadline with time to spare. The bill is on its way governor’s desk.
The Michigan House approved an amendment to the education budget on Thursday night that will penalize state universities and colleges five percent for offering domestic partner benefits for same-sex or unmarried partners.
The Michigan House of Representatives adjourned Thursday afternoon without taking up for a second time a resolution to overturn the Michigan Civil Service Commission decision to approve health benefits for unrelated adults living with state employees.
The Michigan House of Representatives is prepared to vote on a resolution which would overrule a January decision by the Michigan Civil Service Commission to provide partner benefits to state employees.
With battles between the GOP and organized labor reaching a fever pitch in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, Michigan may be the next battleground in what labor advocates are calling a nationwide war on collective bargaining rights.
LANSING — A new report from the Washington D.C. based Economic Policy Initiative (EPI) released Thursday casts doubt on the accuracy of claims by Republican lawmakers that the state’s public employees are overpaid compared to the private sector. “State government employees are currently undercompensated,” says Jeffrey Keefe, an associate professor in Labor and Employment Relations [...]
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