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 Washington Post has a feature article about the city of Warren’s efforts to convince General Motors to move their headquarters out of the city of Detroit and into their fair burg.
There are few places where this high-pressure competition is on bigger display than in Warren, Mich., where Mayor James R. Fouts has mounted a very public campaign to persuade GM to move out of its digs in the gleaming Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit and relocate its headquarters to his city.
Fouts is not shy about offering reasons why he thinks Warren, with a population of 138,000 and about 15 miles from Detroit, trumps the car capital of the United States.
Lower crime rate. Lower taxes. And he’s got plenty of space at the GM Tech Center, a sprawling research and development complex built in the 1950s that once employed 30,000 people and now serves half that many.
Fouts says he’ll throw in some tax incentives for GM to build a new office building. He said he plans to present a five-and-a-half-page offer to GM officials on Wednesday.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson has pointedly refused to rule out such a move, causing great panic among the leadership of the city of Detroit.
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