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.
LANSING– As Gov. Jennifer Granholm huddles with advisers putting the finishing touches on her final State of the State speech on Wednesday, political observers say she has a tightrope walker’s job to do with voters, an opposition Senate and an economy in the pits.
We’re watching Gov. Jennifer Granholm deliver her State of the State message on Michigan public television. The text of the speech was supposed to be embargoed until after 8:00 p.m., but we’ve found that WKAR has posted a PDF of the speech on their site. She’s skipped over this bit: “Over the last six years, [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm used a good chunk of her State of the State address Tuesday night to discuss alternative energy, which she presented as a major opportunity for job growth in Michigan. Reiterating a pitch for increasing the wind-power industry, which she has been making around the state over the past months, Granholm said that [...]
In the annual State of the State Address before the Michigan Legislature, Gov. Jennifer Granholm tonight called for an end to the bitter partisan divisions that marred the last session, and said the lawmakers instead should focus on four areas. Those areas were: jobs for every worker, health care for all families, safe spaces for [...]
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