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.
In a highly unusual move, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission — a constitutionally-mandated state agency empowered to enforce the state’s laws against discrimination — unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday condemning Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell for his strident criticism and harassment of University of Michigan student leader Chris Armstrong. The resolution explicitly calls for [...]
After saying last week that calls for an investigation into the recent rash of fraudulent foreclosures would “politicize” the issue, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has apparently changed his mind and joined all the other state AGs in forming a group to investigate the matter. A press release from the National Association of Attorneys General [...]
With Bank of America and GMAC (now Ally Financial) declaring moratoriums on foreclosure due to a massive problem with document fraud during the process, 40 state attorneys general — but apparently not Michigan’s — are joining forces to investigate the problem and protect their citizens. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Democratic nominee for governor Virg Bernero has been criss-crossing the state, hammering on the foreclosure crisis, a focus that has taken on new urgency as lenders have begun freezing foreclosures across the country because of questions about the legality of sales documents. On Friday, Bank of America announced it was freezing all foreclosures in the [...]
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has weighed in on the growing concerns about foreclosures and the associated documents. However, a spokesman for the AG says the calls by two members of Congress and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero for investigations are “politicizing the struggles of Michigan families,” reports the Associated Press.
Melissa Maynard of Stateline.org points out that Republican candidate for governor Rick Snyder is something highly unusual in the current political climate, “a moderate Republican in a year when conservative militancy dominates his political party.” She writes:
Assistant Michigan Attorney General Andrew Shirvell will be in court today for a hearing to determine whether a personal protection order will be granted to Chris Armstrong, the president of the University of Michigan Student Assembly that he has been targeting with criticism and harassment. Shirvell has been banned from the U of M campus [...]
It seems the pressure is increasing in the Michigan Attorney General’s office. Andrew Shirvell, the assistant AG who is gaining national attention for his virulently anti-gay attacks an stalker-like behavior toward a U of M student leader, has now taken a “personal” leave of absence. The ACLU is also backing Cox’s statement that Shirvell’s off-duty [...]
Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, is attracting national attention for a blog he started and still maintains where he launches vicious attacks on Chris Armstrong, the president of the University of Michigan student assembly, for being gay. Shirvell calls Armstrong a “radical homosexual activist,” but he appears to call [...]
A review by the office of Attorney General Mike Cox has cleared the FBI of any wrongdoing in the controversial raid in Dearborn that resulted in the killing of Detroit-area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. The Detroit Free Press reports:
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