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.
With the state facing revenue shortfalls and widening deficit projections for the next few years, the Michigan Promise grants that help students attend college may be getting the ax:
The Michigan Promise Grant, which comprises more than 40 percent of the state’s student financial aid, may be scrapped starting with the high school class of 2010 as part of an effort to slash more than $1 billion from the state’s ailing budget.
Eliminating the program that gives students up to $4,000 for college has emerged as the top recommendation of a state commission work group charged with proposing budget cuts to the governor and the Legislature by next summer. The higher education proposal is one of many dramatic measures that are expected to come from the Legislative Commission on Government Efficiency as it scours the state budget to fill a gap projected to be $1.1 billion by 2012.
Leaders on the nine-member commission say the budget has already gone through so many cuts that they will be forced to recommend slashing key programs and services that likely will make many unhappy.
“A lot of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked,” said James Curran, former deputy director of community justice for Wayne County, who co-chairs the commission.
Michigan has a balanced budget requirement in the state constitution which forces budget cuts if revenues are lower than expected.
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