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.
Last year inflation rose faster than wages in Michigan, according to a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Michigan’s per capita personal income rose by 2.5 percent between 2007 and 2008 at the same time national inflation was 3.3 percent. Michigan was in the bottom quintile of personal income growth states, which included Ohio, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Florida and Georgia.
Per capita personal income in Michigan was $35,300 in 2008, up from $34,423 in 2007. This puts Michigan at 34th in personal income growth among the states.
Twelve other states experienced per capita income growth below the rate of inflation, due in large part to large declines in employment in 2008.
Read the full report and data here (PDF).
(Justin Miller is a political journalist based in Wayne County who has worked for Real Clear Politics, blogged for The Atlantic and covered the 2008 elections in Ohio for The New York Observer’s Politicker.com network of state politics news sites.)
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