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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm recalled a troublesome year for the state of Michigan at an end-of-year press conference, blaming budget dysfunction on term limits, endorsing deep changes to the state’s tax structure and predicting more budget troubles in 2010
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) said she is ‘encouraged’ by the nomination of federal judge Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor was announced Tuesday morning for the post being vacated by Justice David Souter by President Barack Obama. In a press statement, Stabenow said:
While some leading Democrats say Granholm is not heading for the Supreme Court, that is not stopping leading GOP voices from sounding off about it. The AP’s Kathy Barks Hoffman reports Sunday that Michigan GOP Party Co-Chair Sharon Wise is using the potential appointment as a fundraising moment for the party.
Detroit News pundit George Bullard has a novel idea for the Supreme Court. He thinks it’s time we put a non-lawyer on the court.
Incoherent answers by Sarah Palin from the first interview she did with Katie Couric have proven quite embarrassing to Palin and the McCain campaign. But Jonathan Martin at Politico reports on a clip that has not yet been aired:
The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to hear an appeal on a Michigan case filed against the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. That suit was filed on behalf of a group of journalists, scholars and others who had reason to believe that their phone calls may have been tapped due to their frequent contact with [...]
As kids go back to school around Michigan, many of them are dressing a bit differently than they’re used to. Some Michigan public schools, including schools in Saginaw, have instituted dress codes; schools in Jackson are also considering implementing such a code. Dress codes have been a long-standing controversy in public schools around the country [...]
The Supreme Court is being asked to hear an appeal of a case involving Michigan’s Family Independence Agency (FIA) and their decision to stop placing abused and neglected children with a faith-based organization called Teen Ranch. In November 2003, an FIA review of the Teen Ranch program determined that the program incorporated sectarian religious teaching [...]
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