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.
Detroit Public Schools’ deficit is $100 million larger than originally estimated , according to the district’s emergency financial manager.
Robert Bobb, in an interview with The Detroit News, said the deficit is $306 million for this year, due in part to horrendous accounting practices. Among the bad budgeting: The district paid 597 “unbudgeted personnel” totaling $109 million; paid $89 million extra for non-personnel budget items, and spent millions on “excessive” overtime.
Bobb, who comes to Detroit from Washington, D.C., where he was a former city administrator and school board president, said the district will close more than 50 schools and layoff thousands to get out of the red. Even after a month on the job, Bobb has already taken measures to slash spending, like initiating a hiring freeze to save $3.9 million from vacant positions, and he might axe $2-million leases in the Fisher and New Center One buildings.
To fight corruption, Bobb has hired an auditor general and a former FBI agent to be inspector general.
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