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.
While national unemployment rates have been inching up on a monthly basis, metropolitan areas have seen the worst decline in jobs. The Huffington Post reports a dramatic jump in city unemployment rates over the past year. And according to the article, Detroit tops the nation for metropolitan unemployment.
Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a population of over 1 million, the Detroit area once again claims the sad prize of highest unemployment, with a rate of 17.1 percent, up from 14.9 percent in May and an 8.1 percent point increase year over year.
That’s not shocking, considering Detroit has lead the nation in crime, poverty and foreclosures in recent years, but it does come as more bad news to a city that’s earned an international reputation for political corruption and hard times.
The metropolitan area with the lowest unemployment rate in June was Oklahoma City, at 6 percent.
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