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.
Many Secretaries of State around the county have taken oaths of non-partisanship and don’t endorse candidates out of concern that it could make them appear biased in their role as election administrator. Michigan’s Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has taken a different approach.
Democratic Secretary of State candidate Jocelyn Benson issued a list of her six priorities for campaign finance reform today and she criticized Senate Republicans and GOP Secretary of State candidates for failing to support a campaign finance reform package in the House. Yesterday, in a public letter, State Sen. Michelle McManus challenged Benson to debate [...]
The state of Michigan has agreed to permanently end two practices that illegally removed people form the state list of qualified voters. According to a settlement filed in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, the state of Michigan will no longer automatically cancel the voter registration of people who receive drivers licenses in other states. [...]
Since the 2000 presidential election — in which a highly controversial Florida ballot recount was supervised by an overtly partisan Secretary of State — there has been increasing focus on the risks of partisan election administration.
Democratic Secretary of State candidate Jocelyn Benson is challenging her fellow candidates to join her in pledging not to co-chair any campaigns or endorse any candidates in elections for which they could serve as the final certifier of results. In an announcement today Benson said that this “Oath of Nonpartisanship” is intended to give Michigan [...]
An attorney for the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Rick Snyder filed an amended complaint with the Secretary of State’s election division against a group called the Michigan Civic Education Fund, (MCEF). The original complaint was filed March 3 and dismissed Tuesday. In a letter Tuesday from Melissa Malerman, administrative law examiner of the Legal and [...]
The campaign of Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder has filed two complaints with the Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Attorney General Mike Cox alleging that groups behind a series of attack ads are violating Michigan’s Campaign Finance Law. Snyder attorney Daniel Carlson filed the complaints Tuesday against Eagle Strategies and the Michigan Civic [...]
Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, a Democrat, announced today that she is joining the race for Secretary of State. “Michigan doesn’t need a politician without election administrative experience, we need someone who does the job, know the job and has made significant accomplishments while performing the job,” Winfrey said on her campaign website. “Our citizens [...]
Mark Brewer, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, says Democrats will endorse their candidates for statewide offices, such as attorney general and secretary of state, months before the August convention. The move breaks from party tradition, where the gubernatorial selection — chosen this year in an Aug. 3 primary — gets a chance to make [...]
State Rep. Paul Scott, (R-Grand Blanc), caused a shock wave when he announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Secretary of State five days ago, by declaring that one of his top priorities would be to “ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license.”
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