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.
Gov.-elect Rick Snyder stepped in between his nominee to head the Michigan State Police and veteran Capitol reporter Tim Skubick at a press conference Wednesday, and in the process tipped his hand on his views relating to capital punishment.
Tim Skubick, the dean of state political reporters in Michigan, addressed the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce yesterday and said that Rick Snyder won the governor’s mansion by default because Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Attorney General Mike Cox spent all their efforts going after one another instead of him. The Holland Sentinel reports:
In an opinion piece for the Oakland Press, Tim Skubick looks at the question of whether Andy Dillon might be forced by his fellow Democrats to give up his position as Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives if he chooses to run for governor.
Longtime capitol reporter Tim Skubick, who is generally reticent about crossing the line to become a commentator, has a clearly angry post on his blog about the state legislature going on a hunting vacation rather than staying and working on Michigan’s budget crisis. He writes:
The field of potential Republican nominees for Secretary of State might be one person larger. Right now four Republicans are vying for the honor of replacing term-limited incumbent Terri Lynn Land, who is trying to snatch up the GOP nomination for Lt. Gov. with Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. Among the current list of potential [...]
A new survey of 600 Democrats in Southeast Michigan by Denno Noor Polling found that while Lt. Gov. John Cherry has a clear and sizable lead over his declared opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010, nearly two-thirds of respondents are still undecided in the race. Those results are prompting speculation that Cherry may be vulnerable to a strong primary challenger: The question is, who could mount such a challenge?
There is a battle going on in Lansing about tax credits as critics wonder if they really do help to create jobs and economic growth and, if so, do they do those things well enough to make up for the loss in state revenue at a time when record deficits are forcing massive cuts in [...]
The Messenger’s Ed Brayton was a guest on Off the Record with Tim Skubick on WKAR-TV. The show was taped last week but airs beginning tonight. The panel discussed the Obama administration’s rejection of the auto industry’s restructuring plans and the 2010 governor’s race. Also appearing on the panel were Nick DeLeeuw, Akindele Akinyemi, and [...]
EAST LANSING — U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland), a 2010 candidate for governor, is using the current congressional recess to criss cross the state to boost his bid for the GOP nomination, and swung by the studios of WKAR-TV on Thursday for a taping of “Off the Record With Tim Skubick” where congressman’s policy statements on school vouchers, among other topics came under intense questioning from Skubick and members of his panel of journalists.
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