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.
In less than a year, Detroit has had two mayors and both have proposed unpopular pay cuts when they are months away from seeking reelection.
Both former Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. and current mayor Dave Bing have warned in their first months in office that unless they impose 10-20 percent pay cuts to unionized and non-unionized city workers, the state will take over the city’s finances.
City leaders have said that the situation in Detroit is so desperate that it leaves few options for those in charge of the budget.
Before taking office Bing said he would not propose across the board pay cuts. In a debate with Cockrel, who was his main opponent in the May 5 special election, Bing told voters he was against the same across the board pay cuts that he is pushing today.
Bing said in April of Cockrel’s proposed pay cuts:
“My opponent is talking about a 10 percent pay cut across board. I would look at each department on a department by department basis and not necessarily cut them. You have to look where your valuable employees are.”
But once he got in office and looked at the budget and deficit, his opinion changed. Like Cockrel he now is proposing 10-20 percent pay cuts across the board for union and non-unionized workers.
Today Bing met with union workers to discuss possible concessions in order to avoid a strike.
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