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.
President Obama on Thursday revealed the administration’s plans for developing high-speed rail lines in ten corridors around the country. Included in the plan is one line from Detroit to Chicago and another from Chicago to Toledo and Cleveland right along Michigan’s southern border. Here’s the map of the administration’s planned rail lines:
No reaction yet from Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia), who published an op-ed in the Detroit News two months ago slamming the inclusion of high speed rail funds in the stimulus package. In that op-ed, he claimed that those funds would not help put anyone from Michigan back to work. He also claimed that the funding would go to a ““Sin Express from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.” You might notice that there is no line on the map between those two cities.
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