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.
LANSING — The Michigan Senate passed a bill to ban smoking in public places today, but the legislation includes exemptions for Detroit’s three casinos, private residences used as offices, and vehicles. The ban, which is based on HB 4377 passed by the Democratic dominated House earlier this year, passed the Republican majority Senate 24-13. The [...]
LANSING — Democratic leaders in the Michigan Senate are alleging that Republicans, who control the chamber, are playing politics with a complaint filed by Detroit Democrat Irma Clark-Coleman, alleging that Saginaw Republican Roger Kahn “charged” the 72-year-old lawmaker in a state Capitol elevator.
LANSING — A tense encounter in a state Capitol elevator between two state senators, Detroit Democrat Irma Clark-Coleman and Saginaw Republican Roger Kahn, has sparked calls for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, a Rochester Republican, to censure Kahn. Clark-Coleman, 72, alleges that Kahn, 64, had a confrontation following Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearings in which [...]
LANSING — In a vote this afternoon, the State Senate approved a bill to cut pay for elected officials by 10 percent starting in 2011, affecting the salaries of state lawmakers, the governor, secretary of state and attorney general. “There may not be thanks for doing this. Part of leadership is doing things without expecting [...]
When Robert Wiltjer hurt his back at work in 2000, his doctors gave him Celebrex for the pain. When the otherwise healthy Boyne City machinist suffered a stroke four years later at age 56, he didn’t think it might be due to his medication, said his wife, Leslee. But in 2005 the U.S. Food and [...]
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