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.
In a commentary published by the Grand Rapids Press today, state Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, lays out his vision for how Michigan should go about qualifying for a potential $400 million pot of federal education funds. Invoking the Obama administration’s new Race to the Top initiative — $4.35 billion in discretionary funds the [...]
Senator Deborah Cherry (D-26th) told Michigan Messenger today that Senate Democrats will look at “everything” as they attempt to meet Republican requests for revenue-generating proposals. During today’s briefing from the Senate Fiscal Agency, Democrats repeatedly expressed their preference to raise revenue to solve Michigan’s budget crisis, while Republicans have proposed extensive budget cuts, outlined in [...]
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