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.
Derek Wallbank, who works for Congressional Quarterly, has an interesting blog post about Michigan State University’s lobbying spending, and its payoff.
In his post, Wallbank, who left the Lansing State Journal last year to work in the nation’s capital, notes that The Chronicle for Higher Learning has documented MSU spent $370,000 lobbying the feds for cash.
The institutions pay off? The Chronicle says $4 million in earmarks. But Wallbank does a fine job showing that the actual return on investment was more than $19 million.
How does he get that number? First, he notes Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) earmarks of $10 million for MSU in the last budget. Then he notes that in accepting federal stimulus cash, Gov. Jennifer Granholm was forced to keep higher education funding static. She had proposed a three percent cut to higher ed funding, a total of about $9.1 million in state funding for the Spartans.
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