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.
Stateline.org has an article about the effect of term limits in the states that have them and nowhere will the effect be greater than in Michigan. The article begins by talking about the Michigan Senate, where 3/4ths of that chamber will be brand new after the November elections because of term limits:
The Detroit Free Press reports that efforts to amend the state’s term limits on legislators to make them considerably longer than they are now appear to be stalled as it has proven difficult to convince voters of what knowledgeable political observers know — that term limits has proven to be a very bad idea. Here’s [...]
State Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) is proposing to overhaul Michigan’s government in a number of ways, including increasing the number of terms a legislator may serve, taking redistricting out of the hands of partisan politicians and allowing a vote on the nominees for Attorney General and Secretary of State. In a press release, Meadows [...]
Former Michigan Govs. Jim Blanchard and John Engler, long bitter rivals in state politics, appeared at a press conference before an event at the Michigan Political Leadership Program in Livonia and agreed that the referendum that placed term limits on elected officials in the state has been a very bad idea. The Detroit News reports:
LANSING — A long-serving state senator is lashing out at what he calls a “toxic” atmosphere pervading the state Capitol. “The environment here is not healthy,” said Taylor Democratic Sen. Ray Basham during a midnight interview.
A new poll and study from the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University has found that many voters in the state of Michigan would support a change to the 1992 Constitutional amendment limiting the amount of time a person can serve in the legislature. “There are chinks in the armour [...]
Wayne State University Professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson blames the inexperience of Michigan’s 148 legislators, caused by term limits, for the state government shutdown and failure of the Michigan Legislature to pass a balanced budget on time this fall. “This is a perfect example of the lack of experience,” said Sarbaugh-Thompson, author of the book “The Political [...]
With the budget standoff and the failure of the Senate and House that are controlled by opposite political parties to reach a balanced budget in a timely manner, the refrain often heard in Michigan is there is no institutional memory left in Lansing and no relationships across the aisle in the era of term limits. [...]
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