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.
Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero, in an interview with the Lansing State Journal, has acknowledged that the Obama administration has approached him and asked him to a consider a run for governor next year.
Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder won the Kent County GOP straw poll Thursday night at an event at which RNC Chairman Michael Steele spoke. From Snyder’s press team, here are the results:
Attorney General Mike Cox says the recent bad publicity over his role in an investigation into an alleged party at Manoogian Mansion during the reign of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not force him to drop from the race for the GOP nomination for governor in 201. The Macomb Daily caught up with the AG [...]
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard has garnered the endorsement of GOP leader and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson in his bid for the governor’s mansion. The announcement came this morning WJR talk radio and was made by Bouchard’s running mate Terri Lynn Land, reports MLive.com.
Vanessa Oblinger, the Central Michigan University student and College Republican member who drew attention to allegations of underage drinking at various political events at Mackinac Island in Sept. says she did not pen the apology letter sent the campaign of Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder. In an interview with Central Michigan University’s newspaper CM-Life, [...]
Rick Snyder, an Ann Arbor venture capitalist, has formally entered the race for the Republican nomination for governor in 2010. Snyder, who has come under fire from the conservative base in the state, made his announcement in Dearborn Tuesday morning, then traveled to Flint.
LANSING — Terri Lynn Land, the Michigan secretary of state who last month announced she would not run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, said she dropped out of the race because she did not have the experience haggling with the legislature, a skill that’s critical for the job. In an interview with The Macomb Daily, [...]
Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Synder, who has been criticized by Michigan’s conservative establishment, is set to make his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination official on Tuesday in Grand Rapids.
The crowded field of Republican contenders for governor just got a little more crowded. Huron County Board of Commissioners member Tim Rujan has announced he will seek the GOP nod in 2010, and will battle U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and State Sen. Tom George of Texas Township.
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