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.
Derek Wallbank, from the MinnPost.com, tells Michigan Messenger that Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) has agreed to join the now forming ‘House Tea Party Caucus.’ Hoekstra, who is vying for the GOP nomination for governor, was hit with a negative advertisement Monday by rival Attorney General Mike Cox. That attack ad criticizes Hoekstra for missing what [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox has unleashed an ad criticizing Congressman Pete Hoekstra for missing votes on health care reform. The ad comes as polling shows Cox in a virtual dead heat in their race to win the Republican party nomination for governor. The ad attacks Hoekstra for missing many votes in the last year — [...]
Republican candidate for governor Rick Snyder released his tax returns and charitable contributions from 2007 and 2008 on Friday. In their joint filings, Snyder and his wife Sue paid $323,036 in 2007 and $189,069 in 2008 federal income tax on an adjusted gross income of $1,309,920 in 2007 and $1,169,028 in 2008. In those same [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox has rallied eight attorneys general from other states to join him in challenging the Obama administration’s Department of Justice lawsuit to stop Arizona’s controversial immigration law, slated to go into effect July 29. Cox announced Monday he was intervening in the case, and has sought other states to join him in [...]
Oakland County Sheriff and GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Bouchard released a new ad Wednesday calling for Michigan to become a right-to-work state. Right-to-work states have laws which prevent employers from demanding that employees join unions. These laws prohibit the employers from paying the dues for the union employee from his or her pay check. Twenty-two [...]
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.
To recognize Sunshine Week, Michigan’s Attorney General and GOP candidate for governor, Mike Cox, has had an editorial published on MLive.com calling for other candidates to release their personal financial information. Cox did so earlier this week.
In an editorial Tuesday celebrating Sunshine Week, the Grand Rapids Press editorial team has called for amendments to the state’s campaign finance rules to require disclosure on robocalls flooding the state. Current campaign laws do not require disclosure either on the calls or in campaign records filed with the Secretary of State’s office. But federal [...]
John Weaver, a political consultant for Rick Snyder’s bid for the Republican nomination for governor, is no stranger to political hack attacks. He helmed the McCain 2000 campaign during the South Carolina primary in which Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was savaged with push polls and whisper campaigns. McCain lost that primary, and George W. Bush [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox says the recent bad publicity over his role in an investigation into an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion during the reign of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not force him to drop from the race for the GOP nomination for governor in 201. The Macomb Daily caught up with the AG [...]
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