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.
Detroit is a school district that’s so deep in the hole they can’t even keep the lights and heat on in some schools or buy new books.
Now they’ve broken a contract with on of the highest paid officials in the state and agreed to terminate her “with pay” until her contract is up.
What that means is that they are going to spend almost a million dollars over the next three and a half years for nothing.
That’s right, Calloway will keep getting $280,000 a year until about 2012, making her better paid than Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
While $280,000 may sound like a lot of money, she’s getting paid about average, considering what some school supers get, according to an article in The Washington Post.
But the school board’s decision to fire her early in her contact can’t be good for a district that is in a state of financial emergency.
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