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.
A U.S. Travel Association commissioned study of the Pure Michigan ad campaign found that tourists from out of state spent $6.4 billion in Michigan last year, creating thousands of jobs.
A poll of 600 likely voters released Sunday by EPIC-MRA found that a majority of Michigan residents support both the “Pure Michigan” advertising campaign and the state’s film incentives program, reports the Associated Press. The poll found that 67 percent of the likely voters supported the advertising campaign, while 58 percent supported the film incentives. [...]
The state’s tourism office has ended its Pure Michigan advertising campaign for the year because it has run out of money. State officials say that every dollar spent on tourism promotion brings in around $2.30 in state tax revenue, but a 39 percent cut in the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s promotional budget has forced the [...]
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s successful Pure Michigan advertising campaign may have to shut down. Officials say the ongoing struggle over how and if to fund the advertisements have left the fund with just $5.4 million, the lowest funding level since 1995, reports the Business Review of West Michigan.
The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that dedicates $9.5 million from the general fund to the Pure Michigan advertising campaign intended to boost state tourism. The Traverse City Record Eagle reports that the measure now moves to the House where Democrats prefer a plan that would pay for the ad campaign by enacting a [...]
One of the things Gov. Granholm proposed in her State of the State speech was to restore the funding for the award winning Pure Michigan ad campaign. As if on cue, a new study commissioned by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation has concluded that the campaign drove half a billion dollars worth of economic activity [...]
Forbes Magazine has ranked the Pure Michigan campaign, an ad campaign designed to boost the Michigan economy by encouraging tourists to vacation in the state, as one of the ten best tourism campaigns of all time. The ad campaign, launched in 2006, has been featured in TV and radio commercials during a huge ad blitz [...]
Michigan spent $30 million dollars this year publicizing its value as a vacation destination, largely through the “Pure Michigan” media campaign. Lawmakers, especially those from the tourism-dependent North, say the money was well spent.
Michigan will spend $10 million promoting tourism this spring, taking its “Pure Michigan” campaign national for the first time by advertising on 15 cable networks. The new effort seeks to diversify Michigan’s pool of tourists, The Associated Press reports. State residents now make up 70 percent of Michigan’s tourists.
As Michigan markets its beaches to tourists with a multimillion-dollar “Pure Michigan” ad campaign, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water data show sewage spills and storm water runoff are contaminating beachwater, particularly in the Great Lakes. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which monitors EPA information: Nationally, seven percent of beachwater samples violated health standards, [...]
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