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.
Three prisons and five prison camps will close by the end of the year and nearly 1,000 state workers will likely lose their jobs as the Michigan Department of Corrections makes cuts in response to the state budget crisis, Director Patricia Caruso announced today.
Four of the facilities to be closed — Camp Cusino in Shingleton, Camp Kitwen in Houghton County, Camp Ottawa in Iron River and the Hiawatha Correctional Facility in Kincheloe — are in the Upper Peninsula.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Prusi (D-Ishpeming) said that he’s upset that the UP will be so hard hit by closures.
“These closures are a slap in the face to communities who stepped up to the plate to accept prisons when the state was in need,” he said in a statement released this afternoon. “I am concerned about how these closures will affect workers and their families in these communities, and I hope the Department’s Lansing bureaucracy will not be spared from the budget knife as well.”
The other facilities that will close are Camp Lehman in Grayling, Camp White Lake in Oakland County, the Muskegon Correctional Facility, and the maximum security prison in Standish.
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