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 Detroit News editorial team on Sunday called for President Obama to name someone “open-minded” to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, a phrase that is as meaningless as it is cliche`. The editorial never defines how one tells whether a justice is “open-minded” or not, of course, and it offers little [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will not consider the case in which Michigan and four other states sought to block invasive carp by closing the canal that connects the Great Lakes basin to the Mississippi River system, the Detroit Free Press reports. The states could pursue the issue in state or federal [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide today whether to allow Michigan and five other states to proceed with a lawsuit that seeks to separate the Great Lakes basin from the Mississippi River system, Greenwire reports. Michigan is the lead plaintiff in the suit which seeks to block the migration of invasive Asian carp [...]
A new name with Michigan ties has emerged as one of the names on President Obama’s not-so-short list to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court — and it’s not Gov. Granholm. It’s a former Detroit public school teacher and U of M grad who is now a judge on the 7th Circuit [...]
With the retirement announcement of Justice John Paul Stevens from the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. Jennnifer Granholm’s name is again being considered as a possible replacement. The AP reports that she is on what I’d call the long list of potential nominees, a list that apparently includes around ten names at this point. That is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused a second request for an injunction that would close shipping locks in the Chicago area in order to prevent the migration of Asian carp into the Great Lakes, the Washington Post reports. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox had asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its January decision against the [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to reconsider their earlier rejection of a request by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and other legal authorities in the Great Lakes states to issue an injunction to close down the locks separating the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan. The court has several options:
Attorney General Mike Cox told an audience in Saginaw on Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider its previous denial of a request he filed along with several other attorneys general from Great Lakes states for an injunction to close the locks separating the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan [...]
With the Michigan Supreme Court currently considering the question of whether the Grand Traverse County Prosecutor can bring criminal charges against Meijer for violating the election laws, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday striking down limits on corporate spending eliminates the most serious criminal charge that could be brought against the company. The Traverse City [...]
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) has responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to grant an injunction to close the locks in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal by introducing the CARP ACT (HR 4472) — Close All Routes and Prevent Asian Carp Today. “It is clear Asian Carp pose an immediate threat to the Great [...]
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