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.
The Michigan Senate may take up a non-enumerated anti-bullying bill Tuesday morning in its regular session.
A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing).
The Michigan Senate is set to vote on a measure to bar partial-birth abortions on Wednesday morning and Gov. Rick Snyder is likely to sign the bill if it passes.
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 Ingham County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday evening approved a $60,000 contract to provide legal assistance to homeowners in the county dealing with foreclosures possibly based on false documents, and on Tuesday morning, the Michigan Senate passed a legislation that would make mortgage document falsification a crime in the state.
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.
LANSING — With over 1,000 union members and supporters on the lawn, and hundreds packing the Capitol dome chanting “kill the bill,” the GOP-controlled state Senate pushed the controversial Emergency Financial Manager legislation to the precipice of passage on Tuesday.
The Michigan Senate has been called into session with an expectation the body will pass a controversial set of bills that would create broad new powers for emergency financial managers.
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.
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