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 U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:
Low taxes. Pro growth. Less regulation. If you follow politics, you know these are the central tenants of Republican economic philosophy, and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra wants the party faithful in Michigan to know he is in favor of each of them. Perhaps that’s a typical stance for a candidate seeking his party’s nomination for the governorship, which the congressman from Holland announced his intention to run for last month.
WASHINGTON — While talking with Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who’s leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, on Wednesday about his proposed Parental Rights Amendment — a constitutional change that would, among other things, prevent “any source of international law” to override parents’ rights — he gave me an example of how open some [...]
It’s official: After weeks of speculation, U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra announced this morning that he is throwing his hat in the ring to become the Republican Party’s nominee for Michigan governor in 2010. The 55-year-old Republican made the announcement on WJR radio and plans to criss-cross the state today, making stops in Detroit, Lansing and [...]
In a poll commissioned by Inside Michigan Politics, Market Research Group has released the first analysis of how things might play out in the 2010 race for the governor’s office.
While Rep. Peter Hoekstra would like people to believe that only partisan Democrats would be in any way concerned about his disclosure of details about a Congressional delegation to Iraq that was supposed to be kept secret, the Pentagon is concerned enough about the incident to prompt a review of their communication policies in order [...]
We’re still more than 18 months away from the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election, but the race is already getting national attention. CQ Politics, published by the Congressional Quarterly, has an article about the race noting that the field could be very crowded:
The servers for the official Web site of the U.S. House of Representatives are melting down with traffic, so props to Michigan Liberal for getting the results of the bailout roll call vote from the Michigan delegation. In summation, six voted yes, nine voted no, with Democrats and Republicans on both sides.
Second-quarter campaign-finance reports were due last night from candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, and the telling disclosures are now viewable online at the FEC Web site. Altogether, Republican candidates raised $9,518,684 between April 1 and July 16. Democrats collected $8,722,489 for the same period.
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