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.
Former State Sen. Alan Cropsey has a new job, and it is worrying some activists in the state. Cropsey was formally appointed as the legislative liaison for Attorney General Bill Schuette.
A rare post lame duck session of the state legislature has prompted Kevin Epling, co-director of Bully Police USA and a leading advocate for anti-bullying legislation in the state, to call on the state Senate to use the opportunity to pass the law.
Just weeks before a crucial election, state Rep. Robert B. Jones (D-Kalamazoo) has died. He was 66. Jones had been battling esophageal cancer. Jones was a four term mayor of Kalamazoo before being elected to the state House in 2006. He was the Democratic nominee for the 20th Senate district, and was waging a spirited [...]
Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-Westland) has introduced legislation in the state Senate which would revoke the business license of any company doing business in Michigan found to have hired undocumented workers. “We’re always blaming the workers,” Anderson said in an interview. “But I believe it is the unscrupulous businesses that are hiring illegals that the problem.”
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is using her weekly radio address, released Friday, to ratchet up the pressure on the state senate to act on anti-bullying legislation. Legislation passed the Michigan House Thursday on a 76-29 vote. But it is now on its way to the Republican controlled state senate, which activists say has been the legislative [...]
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s successful Pure Michigan advertising campaign may have to shut down. Officials say the ongoing struggle over how and if to fund the advertisements have left the fund with just $5.4 million, the lowest funding level since 1995, reports the Business Review of West Michigan.
On Thursday, a state House panel voted to move a bill that will make texting while driving a traffic offense. The Associated Press reports the new law would make texting a secondary offense, meaning that police would have to pull a driver over for another offense in order to issue a $100 ticket for texting.
A neighborhood battle over a billboard for an adult entertainment facility in Detroit has spilled into the state Senate. A report in the Macomb Daily says Sen. Hunter Tupac, a Detroit Democrat, has introduce legislation which will limit what can appear on billboard advertisements for adult entertainment locations such as bars, ‘gentleman’s clubs,’ and the [...]
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 [...]
State Rep. Robert Jones, a Kalamazoo Democrat, says he will forgo a third term in the state house and instead set his sights on the state senate seat being vacated by Tom George, a Republican from Kalamazoo. Jones, the former mayor of Kalamazoo, said he will seek the senate seat as a way to demonstrate [...]
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