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 and GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Bouchard released a new ad Wednesday calling for Michigan to become a right-to-work state. Right-to-work states have laws which prevent employers from demanding that employees join unions. These laws prohibit the employers from paying the dues for the union employee from his or her pay check. Twenty-two [...]
In an editorial following Tuesday night’s GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press has called on the candidates to show how a GOP governor will bring a new era of bipartisanship to Lansing. And that, the Free Press says, will be difficult with the ‘unrealistic schemes’ being floated by the candidates.
A new state poll focusing on the gubernatorial primaries finds the Republican race all bunched up at the top and House Speaker Andy Dillon extending his lead on the Democratic side. The survey of 895 likely Republican primary voters had Attorney General Mike Cox, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder all tied [...]
Michigan Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor Mike Cox continues to receive large amounts of money from the mortgage and foreclosure industry, prompting renewed concerns about those ties during the most serious foreclosure crisis in history.
In an extensive article from the Detroit Free Press over the weekend, state pundits tried to weight the potential impact of the Tea Party movement in state politics. For Republican candidate for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District Tom Stillings the meetings with the Tea Party have been like “the Spanish Inquisition,” reports Freep reporter Todd Spangler.
The newly formed Michigan Truth Squad does for Michigan what FactCheck.org does at the national level, evaluating the truth or falsity of claims made in political advertisements and campaign press releases.
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 [...]
The controversial Arizona immigration law known as SB 1070 has made headlines in Michigan again. This time, it is a series of actions countering the law. Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed suit against Arizona. The lawsuit claims that federal authorities have the right and responsibility to enforce immigration laws in the U.S., not states. [...]
The television commercials in the races for the GOP and Democratic nominations for governor are heating up. On the Democratic side, House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) has had two television commercials hit the airwaves, while Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has had none. An article in the Detroit News says Bernero is promising his message [...]
The Grand Rapids Press is reporting that two GOP gubernatorial hopefuls have purchased nearly $1 million in ad time in west Michigan television stations. And that move could signal a likely barrage of television commercials for the month of July. Here’s how the Press laid out the spending:
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