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.
It’s revenue projection time again for the state, a time when the House Fiscal Agency and the Senate Fiscal Agency — both ostensibly non-partisan advisory offices — attempt to predict the amount of money the state will take in over the next year in taxes and fees. And while neither of the conflicting predictions of [...]
As lawmakers continue to negotiate next year’s budget, some are urging changes to the state’s film credit program. According to the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency, the program is expected to cost the state $150 million in the next year while providing unclear job benefits.
In his most recent essay, Jack Lessenberry says that the state budget deficit is far worse than most people understand and he calls on the governor to get on television and begin explaining how we got into this situation and what can be done about it. Lessenberry reports that according to the latest projection by [...]
The non-partisan Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency predicts in a new memo (PDF) that Michigan’s General Fund deficit will continue to grow in Fiscal Year 2009/2010 despite starting with nearly $200 million in leftover federal aid from 2009. The memo says:
A new report (PDF) from the state’s non-partisan Senate Fiscal Agency says Michigan falls nearly $14 billion short of its fair share in federal revenue. The report, which uses census data and reports on federal spending to compile a per capita figure for federal spending per state, includes federal funds used for salaries and pensions, [...]
A new report by the Senate Fiscal Agency projects that state tax revenue for the General Fund and School Aid Fund for Fiscal Year 2010, which begins in October, will fall $2.1 billion short of the revenue projections from January, 2009. Total revenue is estimated at $17.1 billion.
According to the Associated Press, The Michigan State Fiscal Agency announced today the state would take in an estimated four percent less than originally projected in budget plans last year.
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