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.
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.
People who haven’t voted in six years or have received drivers licenses in other states will be subject to extra scrutiny under a package of Republican election reforms introduced this week.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote.
A Massachusetts county clerk says a forensic examination of documents filed by Troy-based Orlans Associates, one of the largest foreclosure firms in Michigan, shows that the company has engaged in illegal robo-signing.
LANSING — Under a sunny and blue skies with unseasonably warm temperatures on Saturday, newly elected Republicans took over nearly all of the key leadership positions in the state of Michigan.
Jordan Swan, who is a female to male transgender man, says he went to the Oakland County Clerk this week to marry his fiancee. The two paid for their marriage license, swore their oaths and signed on the dotted line. Then they were off to the chapel to get married… or so they thought.
While lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people saw gains at the federal level in 2010, Michigan saw the ugly side of anti-gay animus with straight pride celebrations in local schools, a rash of national and local teen suicides and the death of LGBT-specific legislation in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Do you want to watch Gov.-elect Rick Snyder become Gov. Rick Snyder on New Year’s Day? Don’t want to make the trip to Lansing or stand in what is likely to be arctic weather? You’re in luck. The inauguration of Snyder, his Lt. Gov. choice Brian Calley and other statewide candidates Attorney General-elect Bill Schuette [...]
With “tsunami” being the buzzword of the night both nationally and in Michigan, Republicans swept the statewide races and reversed the Democratic hold on the state House of Representatives as well in a performance that managed to exceed even the heightened expectations that had built up.
A new poll by the Glengariff Group for the Detroit News and WDIV shows a strong advantage for the Republican candidates in all of the major statewide races — governor, attorney general, secretary of state and the two supreme court seats. The poll of 600 likely voters has Republican candidate Rick Snyder maintaining an 18-point [...]
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