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.
State budget director John Nixon says he thinks Michigan needs to rethink the earmarks used to fund public education.
Democratic legislators held a series of press conferences this week to call on Gov. Rick Snyder and House and Senate Republicans to restore state funding to public education.
Peter Luke writes in the Grand Rapids Press that the steep cuts in state funding for K-12 education is going to be a very difficult sell for legislators in their home districts — especially with the School Aid Fund showing a big surplus in revenue.
The Michigan Department of Treasury has warned 300 tobacco shops that machines they have which roll cigarettes on location may be considered illegal.
At least two school districts in Michigan’s upper peninsula are not happy with a move by state lawmakers to shift a “surplus” of funds from the state’s School Aid Fund to the General Fund in a move to balance the budget, reports the Escanaba Daily Press. The move happened earlier this month when lawmakers approved, [...]
The Michigan House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a plan proposed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm to shift $208 million from the School Aid Fund to the General Fund. The two main budget funds in the state have different revenue streams and this year the School Aid Fund had higher revenues than expected while the General [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm held a press conference on Wednesday to propose ways to fix the budget shortfalls for the current fiscal year, 2010, and for the FY 2011, which begins on October 1. As is routinely the case, some cuts or shifts are necessary in the middle of the current year as a result of [...]
At least 3,500 Michigan teachers gathered at the state capitol today to protest school budget cuts and cuts to teacher and staff benefits. The Detroit News reports that the gathering appears to be the largest demonstration at the capital this year.
The Democratically-controlled Michigan House of Representatives may want to use the anticipated $292 million surplus in the School Aid Fund to restore some of the cuts made to state funding for K-12 education this year, but one of the Senate leaders on the subject would rather use that money to fill gaps in other state [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm officially rescinded the additional $127 per pupil cut in K-12 funding that she imposed in anticipation of flagging revenues after the annual January revenue estimating conference concluded that revenues should be stable for the rest of FY 2010. This move was expected after state budget officials said a few weeks ago that [...]
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