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.
Detroit has a new mayor in David Bing, but due to time constraints there probably won’t be a new budget. Bing will be forced to work with the budget former interim mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. presented because he will have only have three weeks to review that budget before it’s due.
“I’m probably going to have to live with that budget,” Bing said in the final debate before the special election. But he said he was confident that even if he found the budget flawed he has the business skills to make cuts necessary to keep the city from creating a deeper deficit.
Here’s what Bing said about the budget issue at the final mayoral debate on April 23:
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