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.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Mayor Dave Bing wants to cut all Sunday bus service and shave hours from Saturday bus schedules in Detroit:
[The Bing] administration is proposing eliminating Sunday bus service and stopping service at 6 p.m. on Saturdays as part of plan to cut services in a city that’s trying to dig out of a $350-million deficit.
The Bing administration plans to schedule public hearings for open discussions of the transit cuts.
In a city where busses are the only significant form of public transit, this proposal may get heat at public hearings. The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) estimates that every week 1.7 million people utilize the DDOT bus system.
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