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 group attempting to recall Rep. Robert Dean, D-Grand Rapids, admitted failure and is throwing in the towel. According to a report in the Grand Rapids Press, a spokesperson from Taxpayers to Recall Robert Dean said the group was unable to collect the 8,714 signatures needed to force a recall election. The recall attempt was [...]
The recalls of Michigan lawmakers saw a few new developments this week as one group launched a court challenge and another saw its recall language rejected. The Michigan Taxpayer Alliance (MTA) is attempting to recall primarily Democratic lawmakers who voted to increase taxes in October, and the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) is retaliating by going [...]
Former Republican Speaker of the House Rick Johnson, R-Leroy, has written a newspaper editorial denouncing a recall campaign against Rep. Mike Simpson, D-Liberty Township. The Michigan Taxpayer Alliance, led by Republican Macomb County Commissioner and former state Rep. Leon Drolet, is leading recalls against primarily Democratic lawmakers who voted to increase the state income tax [...]
The old saying that “you need a scorecard to know the players” can apply to the recall efforts against primarily Democratic lawmakers. Developments occur almost daily over the attempt to recall lawmakers who voted for the increase of the income tax and the sales tax on some services — since repealed — that avoided a [...]
An Oakland County Circuit Court Judge ruled Wednesday that the recall petition language against Rep. Marie Donigan, D-Royal Oak, was unclear, putting a stop to almost three months of work by Stop Hurting Michigan’s Kids to recall her. The three-person Oakland County Election Commission approved recall language on the petitions by a vote of 2-1 [...]
Democrats opened a new front in the recall battle that was launched late last year against the primarily Democratic legislators who voted in October to increase the state income tax and place a sales tax on some services — a move that helped balance the state budget and erased a $1.8 billion budget deficit — [...]
Circuit Court Judges in Wayne and Macomb counties gave the recall efforts against state legislators a shot in the arm last week by overturning the decisions by local county Election Commissions. The legislators in question voted in October to increase the state income tax and place a sales tax on some services that helped balance [...]
[Ed. note: We continue our roundup of the highlights and low lights of 2007 with a look at Michigan's recent political terrain.] [COMMENTARY] Checks and balances. Civil discussion and compromise to achieve the common goals of our society. These are the things that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they devised our system of [...]
Michigan Democrats established a pair of web sites to fight back against the recalls they say are nothing but political witch-hunts launched for political reasons with the aid of out-of-state special interest groups and money. The Michigan House Democrats launched a pair of webs sites called “Stop the Recall” and “Decline to Sign.” The Michigan [...]
The three-person Oakland County Election Commission approved recall language by a vote of 2-1 against Rep. Marie Donigan, D-Royal Oak, at a clarity hearing held Friday at the Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac. The Michigan Taxpayer Alliance is leading a statewide effort to recall legislators who voted to increase the state income tax and [...]
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