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.
Recovery Act spending is uneven and is not necessarily flowing to the areas most in need, according to a ProPublica analysis published this week.
Though Michigan has the nation’s highest unemployment rate –15.2 percent — it has so far received only $366.20 per capita in federal Recovery Act funds. Wyoming, with an unemployment rate of 5.9 got $673.39 per capita, and Alaska with 8.4 percent unemployment got $1,024.28 per person. Thirty states have received more per capita aid than Michigan.
The disconnect between need and funding levels is also found at the county level.
Nationwide, the results showed no significant relationship across counties when spending was compared against unemployment, poverty, race and income. Looking within state boundaries, spending did have a relationship to unemployment in a few cases — but not always in the same direction.
In New Jersey [4], for example, counties with high unemployment were more likely to get more stimulus money per person. The opposite proved true in Michigan [5], which has the nation’s highest jobless rate at 15.2 percent
Here in Michigan some of the counties with highest unemployment got the least aid.
Leelanau, with an unemployment rate of 9 percent has received $204 dollars in per capita stimulus spending while Wayne, which has a 18.5 percent unemployment rate, received only $183 per capita. Mackinac County with an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent got $330, while Oscoda with an unemployment rate of 20.2 got just $52 per capita.
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