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 new report by the Senate Fiscal Agency projects that state tax revenue for the General Fund and School Aid Fund for Fiscal Year 2010, which begins in October, will fall $2.1 billion short of the revenue projections from January, 2009. Total revenue is estimated at $17.1 billion.
Overall, the SFA projects a $1.5 billion deficit for the end of FY 2010. Because Michigan has a balanced budget requirement in the state constitution, that deficit will have to be eliminated with budget cuts during the fiscal year, similar to those passed a couple weeks ago to balance the budget for FY 2009.
The report also says that the state will have access to approximately $949 million in stimulus funding that could be used to help balance the budget in FY 2010, but that still leaves nearly $600 million in cuts to reach a balanced budget.
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