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.
In a brief interview with Michigan Messenger at the state Republican Party convention on Friday, Republican state Sen. Michelle McManus, now a candidate for secretary of state in 2010, made her disdain for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now quite clear, going so far as to claim that the organization, better known as ACORN, should not be allowed to operate in the state of Michigan.
The state of Michigan does routine checks of their voter registration lists and removes people from the state’s Qualified Voter File based on those checks. Most of the time, there’s a good reason for those removals but often someone is removed from the rolls unjustifiably. The Advancement Project has put together a database where you [...]
The Detroit News reports on a new study that indicates that some Michigan citizens living overseas, particularly those in the military in active war zones, may have their right to vote compromised because the state does not allow enough time for them to receive, fill out and return their absentee ballots:
There’s less than a week before the October 6th deadline for voter registration. And we have only five weeks before election day on November 4th. With time running low, rumors are flying faster than ever about who can vote and who cannot. Some people are using the social networking site Facebook.com to host a growing string of [...]
Prepares to monitor Tuesday’s primary in two counties, the general in November
The U.S. Supreme Court will take on voter ID laws this week in a politically charged case that could determine how easy it is to vote in several key states, including Michigan. On Jan. 9 the court will hear arguments about the Indiana voter ID law that requires voters to produce a state-issued photo ID [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice overruled Thursday a decision by Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land to close the Buena Vista Township Secretary of State branch in Saginaw County. The department said the closing could adversely effect minority voter registration and voting rights. The branch closing was part of a cost-saving measure by Land [...]
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