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 “Detroit’s other burning question,” the Metro Times examines a looming public policy decision it says is not getting enough attention in the wake of the unfolding mayoral drama — whether to keep burning the city garbage.
Next year Detroit will be done paying off the bonds it issued to fund construction of the Resource Recovery Facility — America’s largest trash incinerator.
In 1991, facing a budget crisis, Detroit sold the facility to Phillip Morris and General Electric in what the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority, the city agency that came up with the deal, describes as an “extremely convoluted and complex
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