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.
Voters in Kalamazoo approved a controversial amendment to the city’s charter which makes possession of a small amount of pot for those 21 years of age older a “lowest possible law enforcement priority.”
The Michigan House of Representatives adjourned Thursday afternoon without taking up for a second time a resolution to overturn the Michigan Civil Service Commission decision to approve health benefits for unrelated adults living with state employees.
The Michigan Senate has approved legislation that gives state-appointed emergency managers the power to take over financially troubled local governments and schools and break labor contracts.
Embattled Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) won’t seek re-election, the Grand Rapids Press reports. The 58-year-old former state police trooper has served in Congress for nine terms — that’s 18 years. But he has come under considerable fire since last summer from both conservatives and liberals.
The Michigan Republican Committee has launched a website and commercial targeting Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) for his last minute switch to supporting health care reform. Echoing earlier attacks on Stupak, the website and commercial allege Stupak sold-out the unborn for $726,409 in airport funding in his district.
DETROIT — On Tuesday, the city council voted to pay future city charter revision commissioners $50 per meeting. The nine commissioners, who will be elected on Nov. 3 will be responsible for updating the city’s governing document. Due to economic hardships, the payments are 33 percent less than former revision commissioners earned in previous years. [...]
DETROIT — Details provided in the indictment of political consultant Sam Riddle suggest that he was the negotiator in multiple incidents of bribery and extortion for former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers.
DETROIT — Mayor David Bing announced at a press conference Wednesday that he is negotiating a deal that would lease the Cobo Convention Center to a regional authority that would in turn take over operation of the facility and fund the expansions needed to keep the center home of the North American International Auto Show. [...]
Rachel Maddow had an excellent riff on her show this weekend about long lines to vote and the fact that this is, in essence, a poll tax.
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