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.
A group of activists who have called for a boycott of JP Morgan Chase and other banks that received billions of dollars in federal bailout funds to stay alive but are refusing to help Chrysler survive by restructuring their loans to accept equity instead of cash may have found an ally in Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm joined those denouncing creditors of Chrysler LLC for their unwillingness to make concessions on outstanding debts, specifically targeting financial institutions that have accepted loans from the federal government.
Among Chrysler’s chief lenders are JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. They have asked for 40% ownership and a seat on the Chrysler board of directors in exchange for reducing their debt from $6.9 billion to $4.5 billion.
“Who knew that bailing out the banks would mean that they could kill the auto industry,” she told reporters at an unrelated event. She said the livelihoods of thousands of families are in the balance.
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