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.
Many Secretaries of State around the county have taken oaths of non-partisanship and don’t endorse candidates out of concern that it could make them appear biased in their role as election administrator. Michigan’s Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has taken a different approach.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce has filed a federal suit against Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, claiming that a recent campaign finance ruling infringes on the organizations First Amendment right to free speech, the Grand Rapids Press reports. In May Land ruled that the Chamber can spend any amount it wishes on ads that [...]
Recently issued guidelines from the U.S. Department of Justice that give states new details on how they must offer voter registration at public assistance agencies could significantly increase political participation by the poor and minorities as soon as this fall’s election — if Michigan complies with the law, say voting rights activists.
Oakland County Clerk and Ruth Johnson has made the focal point of her campaign for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State a five point plan to keep foreigners from voting in Michigan elections, something that state and local elections officials say is a non-existent problem in the state.
The state of Michigan has agreed to permanently end two practices that illegally removed people form the state list of qualified voters. According to a settlement filed in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, the state of Michigan will no longer automatically cancel the voter registration of people who receive drivers licenses in other states. [...]
In separate posts on Facebook Saturday, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike Bouchard and his Lt. Gov. selection, Terri Lynn Land, bemoaned a planned lawsuit against Arizona by the Obama administration. Bouchard, who is currently the sheriff of Oakland county, started the anti-Obama rants with a Twitter post which was run on Facebook as well, and Land [...]
Michigan Democrats settled on election law expert and voting rights activist Jocelyn Benson as their candidate for Secretary of State back in April, but the Republican field of candidates remains crowded with no definite front runner, race watchers say.
Today the Grand Rapids Press joined the Detroit News in calling for more financial disclosure from groups that sponsor television issue ads. “Michigan’s current campaign finance laws are woefully inadequate in an age of unlimited corporate and union spending,“ the GR Press writes. “What’s needed is more disclosure, so citizens know exactly who is paying [...]
A January Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance changed the way that corporations and labor unions can fund political campaigns and some worried that this would allow a new flood of corrupting corporate funded campaign ads, but so far in Michigan it seems unlikely to change much about how elections play out.
Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land is expected to issue new guidance Friday in relation to campaign finance reporting rules. The move, reports the Grand Rapids Press, is in response to the Supreme Court ruling which found corporations had First Amendment rights. That ruling struck down limits on corporate donations and spending in campaigns.
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