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.
More kids are being removed from their homes because their parents are poor, Curt Guyette of the Detroit Metro Times, reports.
Guyette profiles Melanie Morgan of Lansing whose battle for custody of her sons reached the state Supreme Court. The small size of the home where Morgan lived with her three kids and extended family was sited as one of the reasons the state removed them.
Guyette quotes Vivek S. Sankaran, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic and Morgan’s lawyer, as saying that less than 40 percent of the kids placed in foster care in Michigan are reunited with their parents.
He writes that according to the state Department of Human Services, 16,454 kids are currently in the foster care system, and poor people are having a harder time accessing support services that are growing more scarce.
Guyette writes that Judge Elizabeth Gleicher of the Court of Appeals says she’s astonished at the rate at which parental rights are being terminated and that increasingly these cases involve accusations of neglect rather than physical or sexual abuse.
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