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.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Tuesday morning at the National Institutes of Health and announcing new U.S. initiatives to address the global pandemic.
An anonymous robocall is being sent to voters in Michigan with an ominous and inaccurate warning: Signing petitions could result in identity theft.
A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange 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.
Michigan Secretary of State offices across the state have been unable to process business since Wednesday due to a computer outage.
The Michigan Secretary of State’s office forbid clerks from notifying voters that absentee ballots they had already cast for a candidate who died were no longer valid and that they had to request a new ballot in writing from their local clerk’s office.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Ruth Johnson and Democrat Jocelyn Benson each have around half a million dollars in campaign cash on hand as they head into the final days of the election. Benson has been campaigning far longer than Johnson and has received many more individual contributions.
Under an agreement reached in federal court the Michigan Secretary of State will allow the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and other corporations and labor unions to pool funds for spending on political action committees as long as payments are not connected to campaigns for political office, the Grand Rapids Press reports.
A former aide to State Sen. Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau) who worked on her 1998 congressional campaign claims that McManus directed her to break election law and to sign a false affidavit to conceal that act. Christi Carpenter told the Traverse City Record Eagle, that during that campaign McManus told her to sign her name [...]
Grand Traverse County Clerk Linda Coburn, a Republican, claims that Secretary of State candidate Michelle McManus, the Republican state senator from Lake Leelanau, and her father Mike McManus, tried to pressure her into approving flawed affidavits from candidates seeking election as precinct delegates. The Traverse City Record Eagle reports:
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