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.
Our colleague Todd Heywood reported earlier that newspaper company Gannett (NYSE:GCI) was putting its workers on mandatory one-week furloughs during the next quarter to reduce costs.
Apparently that’s not enough cost-savings; according to Gannett Blog, the company has sent a memo within its organization at a midwest outlet outlining a pilot program in which paid Associated Press news feed content was replaced with USAToday content. USAToday, published nationally, is owned by Gannett; the move if rolled out across all 80-plus Gannett papers is estimated at one million dollars in savings at each local paper.
There’s more to this situation brewing, including a possible shuffle of management at the top of USAToday. Stay tuned.
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