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.
The seemingly endless lawsuit between a group of former Acme Township officials against Meijer and the development company Village of Grand Traverse LLC has finally come to an end, settled for $1.5 million. Each former official was to receive $300,000 under the agreement approved by the judge on Wednesday.
The case began in 2004, after Acme Township officials denied a request to build a new shopping center that would include a new Meijer store. After that denial, Meijer violated election laws by surreptitiously funding a campaign to recall the officials who voted against the new development. For that, they were fined the maximum allowed by state law, more than $190,000.
Meijer fought long and hard to keep this suit out of the courts, but last fall the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the case could go forward. Given that the state had already determined that they had violated the law, it was a foregone conclusion that they would be found liable for damages.
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