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.
Faced with a $14 million budget deficit, officials in Flint are looking to cut costs by laying off more city employees as part of its proposed budget, The Flint Journal reports.
The budget’s details will be presented at City Hall today at 5:30 p.m. by Flint’s temporary mayor, Michael Brown, who said the state’s fourth-largest city needs to begin steps to operate in the black and fend-off a possible state takeover of its finances.
“I don’t think we can avoid layoffs. There will be some layoffs,” Brown told The Journal.
Brown said the number of layoffs won’t be a firm numbers, as he is still negotiating wage and benefit concessions with the unions. Last year, 45 police officers were let go to save costs. Brown also let go a number of administrative officials in February when he took over the city’s top job from former Mayor Don Williamson, who resigned in February in advance of a recall vote.
The proposed job cuts come the same day as the announcement that City Council President Jim Ananich said he would not seek re-election in November.
A council member for four years, Ananich said in a statement that he didn’t want to have his attention divided between Flint’s budget crisis and campaigning.
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