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.
Recently cleared of a 3-10 year prison sentence imposed for criticizing a Berrien County judge, Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor is organizing a boycott and picket of Harbor Shores, the controversial private golf course under construction on the city’s public parkland along Lake Michigan.
In an interview on Monday, Pinkney said that the Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizations is asking golfers not to visit the Jack Nicklaus Signature course that has involved the partial privatization of the city’s Jean Klock Park.
Pinkney said that BANCO is also preparing to picket the course which has opened nine holes for play despite an ongoing federal case by locals who seek to block the project.
Wendy Dant Chesser, spokeswoman for Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment Inc., said that 32 Benton Harbor residents have been hired to work at the golf course.
The project has been supported with public financing by the state of Michigan and lauded by Gov. Jennifer Granholm as an example of positive economic development.
More than 300 people have played the nine-hole course since it opened this month, according to Mark Hesemann, managing director for Evergreen Development, which operates the course.
Chesser and Heseman said BANCO has a right to protest their project.
“This is America,” Hesemann said.
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