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.
Madison Heights School District Superintendent John Telford quit his job Monday night, saying he’s been pushed out by racist residents and school board members.
Telford took over the red-ink drenched district in Oakland County in March as an interim superintendant and proposed recruiting students from Detroit to bring more per-pupil aid from the state to the district. However, Telford’s plan to raise the district’s cap on school-of-choice children from 485 students to nearly three times that was met with stiff opposition from Madison Heights residents in an April school board meeting undercut by racial tension.
Last week, the board refused to hear Telford’s proposal to help close its $1.5-million deficit expected for next year. The board also announced criteria for its search for a permanent superintendent. After hearing this and that the school-of-choice plan was defeated, Telford told the board he would quit if they wanted him to do so.
Telford’s brief tenure was also marked with another controversy: He called Detroit Public Schools a “wasteland” after teaching there. Telford said last week that he made these inflammatory statements purposefully to attract media attention to his plan to bring Detroit students into Madison Heights.
Telford hoped the firestorm would help him save the district, but it only contributed to his ouster.
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