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.
LANSING — The Republican-controlled state Senate earlier Tuesday morning passed the home foreclosure prevention legislation, a compromise bill which was referred out of conference committee and passed the House lawmakers last week Wednesday. The vote was unanimous, with one senator absent from the proceedings.
The legislation will now head to Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s desk for her signature. The governor is expected to sign the bill into law since she called for its swift passage in her State of the State Address in February.
The legislation passed after a battle between Senate Republicans who did not want an option for judicial foreclosure, and the Democratic-controlled House which was pushing for the judicial foreclosure measures, which allows distressed homeowners who qualify for, but are not granted a loan modification, to take their case before a judge. Currently, under Michigan law, a homeowner must prove fraud by the lender in order to seek judicial intervention in a foreclosure. The compromise legislation OK’d by lawmakers include a judicial foreclosure remedy.
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