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.
Wayne County Sheriff and Detroit mayoral candidate Warren Evans has done away with sheriff sales in Wayne County “until further notice.” The action was announced Monday in a press release.
Evans, via the release, said:
“After a great deal of research, I have determined there is sufficient legal grounds for me – and for other sheriffs – to halt mortgage foreclosure sales,” Evans said. “I cannot in clear conscience allow one more family to be put out of their home until I am satisfied they have been afforded every option they are entitled to under the law to avoid foreclosure.”
The city of Detroit had the tenth highest foreclosure rate in the country, and Michigan ranked fifth in 2008.
Evans made the numbers from Realtytrac.com even more real in his press release:
Wayne County has been in many ways, the epicenter of the nation’s foreclosure and housing market crisis. In 1998, the Sheriff’s Office processed 2,417 foreclosure sales. That number increased significantly each year, reaching a peak of 26,314 in 2007, up 32 percent from the year before. Foreclosures dipped somewhat in 2008 to just under 20,000, due in part to a temporary foreclosures moratorium by lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that ended on Saturday.
Evans asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm to declare a state of emergency and issue a moratorium in a letter last month. Granholm refused the request, claiming she did not have the authority to take such action.
Evans is now encouraging other Michigan sheriffs to follow suit and shut down the foreclosures sales county by county.
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