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.
Social networking giant MySpace.com knew about hundreds of registered sex offenders but failed to remove their profiles from the system, alleges the company’s former top contractor tasked with identifying offenders for the company.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees this morning, unveiled a budget plan full of deep spending cuts and new taxes on seniors, the poor and the middle class to offset a business tax cut.
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 [...]
In a three to one vote, the Michigan Civil Service Commission on Wednesday approved a controversial measure to extend healthcare benefits to state employees’ unmarried partners and their dependents.
LANSING — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder delivered his first State of the State address to Michigan lawmakers and the public Wednesday night. Standing before a joint session of the Michigan legislature, Snyder clarified a vision for Michigan, but provided very little in terms of details on how the state would bridge its estimated $1.8 billion [...]
Local law enforcement in Emmett Township and Calhoun County are threatening to arrest citizen activists and journalists who go to the Kalamazoo River to check on claims that the oil has been cleaned up there — apparently without any legal authority for such arrests.
The mother of murder victim who stars in a campaign ad for the Schuette campaign invokes the age-old slur of “Jewish-owned media” in attacking David Leyton and gets support from Schuette rather than condemnation.
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.
Pete Hoekstra is coming under fire because a Republican caucus he belongs to in Congress has condemned the White House-negotiated establishment of a $20 billion fund to support those harmed by the Gulf oil disaster as a “Chicago-style political shakedown.”
Macomb County officials want undocumented workers to fill out their census forms. At stake, officials told the Macomb Daily, is $1,000 per person per year in federal funding. The census, conducted every 10 years, is a Constitutional requirement. The resulting numbers are then used for everything from federal funding formulas to representation in the U.S. [...]
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