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.
As a business person, this morning’s announcement about The Ann Arbor News seemed odd. Out of Booth Newspaper’s seven Michigan local news publications, why just Ann Arbor moving to an online-only format?
Well wonder no more. Booth has just announced that their three eastern Michigan papers — The Bay City Times, The Saginaw News and The Flint Journal — will all reduce to three days of print a week.
Booth’s western Michigan papers — The Grand Rapids Press, Kalamazoo Gazette and The Muskegon Chronicle — will continue printing seven days a week, but are cutting wages and benefits. All of Booth’s Michigan-based print newspapers will continue to publish their content online at their Mlive.com outlet.
It does seem odd that Booth could not have centralized operations to Flint and continued seven-day a week print operations for the four eastern papers. On the other hand, the eastern side of the state has suffered most from job losses due to the downturn in the automotive industry; the loss of so many middle-class jobs over the last decade surely resulted in lower demand for print news. The volatility of fuel costs over the last two years may also have discouraged Booth management from considering centralized printing with trucking product to local papers.
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