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.
Fed up with the bottleneck on a smoking ban in all places that serve food in Michigan, Rudyard Democratic Rep. Gary McDowell has introduced legislation which would allow local government ban smoking. The new legislation, the Associated Press reports, will amend current law to allow local jurisdictions to pass their own ban. Right now only [...]
In a session that lasted into the evening on Tuesday, the Michigan House of Representatives voted 73 to 41 to pass HB 4377, a ban on smoking in public places, places of employment and food service establishments, with exemptions for casinos, pre-existing cigar bars and home offices. Last minute attempts to amend the bill and [...]
House Speaker Andy Dillon in a press release from House Democrats this afternoon: “As I’ve said before, we want to move the smoking ban before summer. I trust my Chairman will move the smoking ban when it is ready.”
A big majority of voters support a smoking ban in all workplaces, including casinos, according to a new poll released Monday. The EPIC-MRA poll, commissioned by Campaign for Smokefree Air, said 64 percent they support a smoking ban. The issue has been bandied about inside the legislature for months and is scheduled to have a [...]
Despite a full court press by the Michigan Department of Community Health, the proposed ban on smoking looks like it will not pass in the last days of the lame duck session of the state legislature. Both houses have passed smoking ban plans, with the Senate passing a bill which would ban all smoking in [...]
The Michigan Department of Community Health today sent a letter to the State Senate and House urging the passage of a ban on smoking in public places like eateries and bars. The legislation passed the State House in May on a vote of 65-39.
Free market lecture against smoking ban turns pro-business audience against Republican senator [COMMENTARY] In front of a pro-business crowd attending the Mackinac Policy Conference Thursday at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Senate Majority Leader and right-wing Republican Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, came across as callous to the health and well-being of hospitality, service and gaming [...]
Economist is a fellow at think tank funded indirectly by Phillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds [COMMENTARY] Pressure from the MGM Grand, Greektown and MotorCity casinos is working to swing the Democratic House leadership against the popular smoking ban bill. On May 22, in deference to pressure, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, began [...]
As expected, the Michigan House passed the smoking bill, but it was not the version the Senate sent from across the hall. The representatives put back exemptions for casinos, bingo halls, cigar bars and tobacco stores. By a 65-39 vote Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers passed a new version of the bill that was the essentially the [...]
Detroit casinos say they would lose 15 to 20 percent of their smoking customers to Native-run casinos even though the nearest one — Saganing Eagle's Landing Casino in Standish — is 142 miles from the MGM Grand. In what may have been a Machiavellian maneuver, Senate Republicans eager to look good to their constituents but [...]
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