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 Post’s Kari Lydersen reports on the growing controversy over the proposed privatization of Benton Harbor’s lakefront park in “Depressed City Divided over Golf Proposal.”
“Can three waterfront golf holes in a ‘Jack Nicklaus Signature’ course save Benton Harbor, a tumbledown town marked by factory closures, high unemployment, and years of simmering racial frustration and suspicion?” writes Lydersen.
She quotes former Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund board member Lana Pollack: “This is a very poor and desperate community, and it’s a company town. … [Developers] say they are teaching kids to read. But a community shouldn’t have to make a choice between whether their kids have after-school tutoring or a public park.”
Michigan Messenger has been following the proposed conversion of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock Park since October. See recent stories:
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