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 Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm appeared on CNN with Fareed Zakaria recently and pointed out that during her administration, all the tax breaks and wage concessions offered to businesses didn’t keep them from leaving for other countries.
A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers.
During House negotiations yesterday over a budget measure to allow the government to keep running, freshman Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) joined the rest of Michigan’s Republican delegation in voting to preserve tax breaks for oil companies.
Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to “broaden the base of taxpayers by including those earning private and public pensions” is provoking outrage among seniors who have long enjoyed the most generous tax breaks in the nation.
Governor Granholm has signed into effect a new law that will require the state’s troubled film office to issue twice yearly reports about how Michigan’s generous film subsidies are used.
Officials with the incoming Snyder administration say they are looking through the state’s tax code in an effort to identify tax breaks and loopholes that can be eliminated.
The Detroit Free Press reports that some in the Michigan legislature are taking a look at the possibility of reducing or even eliminating the enormous tax breaks passed for those who make movies in this state. Those tax breaks cover up to 42 percent of the cost of making a movie and critics say such [...]
Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under state and federal law. With the state facing an ongoing budget crisis, some say these tax breaks have become a costly and unnecessary entitlement program.
Part of the reason Michigan doesn’t have enough money to pay for public services like education, health care and environmental enforcement, is that the state is giving away billions in tax breaks (a projected $35.8 billion in 2009) for everything from NASCAR speedways, to church vehicles, to companies that install pollution control equipment that is [...]
The Associated Press had another installment of factual record-straightening ready to go as the curtain closed on another night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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