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In Ohio on Tuesday, voters went to the polls and repealed a law that prohibits collective bargaining by public employee unions. But some voters received robocalls from proponents of that law telling them that the voting was on Wednesday.
Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel’s recent decision to fire the city clerk led the ACLU to warn that today’s election has been jeopardized. The Treasury Dept., which is responsible for overseeing Emergency Mananger, however, says that it is not worried about the election.
Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel’s decision to fire the city clerk last week puts the integrity of tomorrow’s election in question, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.
If Michigan lawmakers are in the mood to offer reforms that could appease parts of the Occupy Wall St. movement — though there’s no indication that they are — beefing up the the state’s rules for campaign finance disclosure might make a good start.
Campaign finance reports filed last week in Ingham county show that at least two Lansing City Council candidates accepted donations from businesses that may be in violation of Michigan campaign finance law.
Rep. Paul Scott was delivered another setback by the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday when the justices ruled that his recall election would take place on Nov. 8 as originally planned.
Michigan residents could vote via absentee ballots for any reason under election reforms proposed by Republicans last week, but because the reform also requires voters to pick up their ballots in person, the change might not make it much easier for some people to vote.
The Michigan League of Women Voters are calling for reform of the state’s redistricting laws and will be hosting a forum at Cooley Law School on Wednesday evening on the subject.
People who haven’t voted in six years or have received drivers licenses in other states will be subject to extra scrutiny under a package of Republican election reforms introduced this week.
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice shines the spotlight on a range of new state laws that make it more difficult to vote, particularly for poor and minority voters.
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