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 Michigan Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced today that it is recruiting people to participate in a campaign of civil disobedience aimed at keeping foreclosure victims from being evicted from their homes in Flint and Detroit.
Carrie Guzman of ACORN’s Lansing chapter explained that the “Homesteading” program will train volunteers in the techniques of civil disobedience and then establish a network so that when participating families receive eviction notices ordering them out of their homes activists gather and attempt to block the eviction.
Flint and Detroit are part of the second wave of cities where ACORN groups have begun eviction resistance programs.
In Detroit foreclosures have been suspended by Sheriff Warren Evans who stated that provisions of the federal bank bailout prevent him from forcing people from their homes. Evans is being sued in federal court by Towne Mortgage Co. of Troy, which is arguing the foreclosures must continue.
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