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.
The group registered as an official political party called the Tea Party in the state of Michigan has filed an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court seeking to overturn last week’s ruling by the Court of Appeals that prevented them from having their candidates listed on the ballot in November.
A new political party calling itself the Tea Party — which members of real Tea Party organizations around the state claim is a fake party developed by Democrats to siphon off support from Republican candidates — will not be allowed on state and local ballots in the November election. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Escanaba Daily Press in Michigan’s upper peninsula reports that 250 people gathered for a Tea Party event Saturday. There, speakers were treated to litany of issues seen in other Tea Party gatherings across the state — claims of socialism, demanding free markets, out of control spending, reports the Press.
In an extensive article from the Detroit Free Press over the weekend, state pundits tried to weight the potential impact of the Tea Party movement in state politics. For Republican candidate for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District Tom Stillings the meetings with the Tea Party have been like “the Spanish Inquisition,” reports Freep reporter Todd Spangler.
The folks running around Michigan with petitions to opt the state out of the recently enacted federal health care reform have a new argument: The legislation will lead to fewer marriages and ruin many existing ones. Wendy Day, director of the Michigan Citizens for Healthcare Freedom, has a blog on RightMichigan.com arguing just that. MCHF [...]
In what may be an indication of the limited reach and political muscle of the nascent anti-government, anti-tax Tea Party movement, voters in three municipalities and at least two school districts in west Michigan approved various tax increase initiatives. The Grand Rapids Press reports that residents in Grand Rapids, Kentwood and Wyoming all voted to [...]
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is taking heat for comments he made in an interview with the Two Guys Named Joe podcast. The podcast, which features Democratic political consultant Joe DiSano and Republican political consultant Joe Munem, is an exploration of all things Michigan politics. The two consultants were at the Democratic Party’s nominating convention [...]
The brewing controversy between Macomb county’s Clinton Township and two Tea Party groups from metro Detroit appears to be dying down. Clinton Township officials claimed Tea Party organizers mislead township officials about the size of the crowd, resulting in parking issues. They also claimed they mislead officials in order to reserve a gazebo in the [...]
Jack Hoogendyk, a former state lawmaker from Kalamazoo, announced via e-mail Thursday that he will challenge Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joesph) in August’s Republican primary. Hoogendyk sent a letter to supporters in March seeking their advice on whether he should consider running against Upton, who has served in Congress for 22 years. In that letter, [...]
Republican Gubernatorial candidate Mike Bouchard says the state should skip the lawsuit over federal health care reform, and instead withhold federal tax payments to protest the program. In an interview with the Macomb Daily, Bouchard said:
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