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.
The Washington Blade, a gay newspaper in Washington D.C., reports that Patrick Sammon, president of the national gay organization Log Cabin Republicans, says the group is at least $100,000 in debt.
In the story posted Friday on the Blade’s website, Sammon said while the group is in debt, it is currently paying the bills.
“It’s not like we’re not paying the rent or not paying the phone bill or anything like that,” he said. “We’re current on the bills that we owe, but we do have some debt that’s consolidated.”
To address the budget gap, Sammon said the group would likely cut its 2009 operational budget by 35 to 40 percent. It made a 20 percent budget cut in 2007, when it noticed the impact of the nation’s gathering economic crisis. However, the group had planned to see an increase in fundraising revenues based on previous presidential election seasons.
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