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 GOP primary race for governor has been weighted with attack promotional materials since February. Websites, robocalls, radio commercials and television ads have targeted nearly all of the candidates at one time or another. But Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, who is polling in fourth place in the five way race, says the ads are [...]
Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land is expected to issue new guidance Friday in relation to campaign finance reporting rules. The move, reports the Grand Rapids Press, is in response to the Supreme Court ruling which found corporations had First Amendment rights. That ruling struck down limits on corporate donations and spending in campaigns.
The onslaught of radio, internet and billboard attacks bubbling up in the Republican primary for the nomination for governor is continuing to draw criticism from the candidates themselves. As I reported this morning, the campaign of Ann Arbor business Rick Snyder sent a scathing letter to Mike Cox, the sitting attorney general, and another candidate, [...]
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 [...]
The man behind some of the most “reprehensible” — in the words of John McCain — GOP attack ads in recent memory is getting involved in Michigan’s gubernatorial race. According to campaign finance reports, Scott Howell and Company, whose partners were involved with infamous campaigns ads attacking Max Cleland and Harold Ford, has been hired as a media consultant by Oakland County Sheriff and GOP candidate for governor Mike Bouchard.
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