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 Macomb County Board of Commissioners approved a small increase in property taxes late last week to wipe out their budget deficit and save important county services from having to be cut. The vote was 16-10.
Macomb County commissioners narrowly approved Thursday the first county property tax increase in more than four decades during a raucous meeting.
The 16-10 vote means county property taxes will increase 9% this year, costing the average homeowner an extra $27 a year. The county’s tax base will increase $11.5 million this year, erasing a $10.3-million deficit that threatened hundreds of government jobs and numerous services for seniors, lower-income families and other residents.
The Macomb County GOP had suggested an alternative plan to cut services rather than increase the taxes, proposing to shut down the county’s library, animal shelter and a nursing home. As we said at the time, it seems rather absurd to close down the county library, which is important to a community in a great many ways, to save as much as the average person probably spends on lattes in a month.
Leon Drolet told the Free Press that he may start yet another recall campaign aimed at the commissioners who voted for the tax increase.
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