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.
A multi-jurisdictional drug task force operating in Kalkaska County has seized marijuana plants grown by Rapid City medical marijuana caregiver, Archie Keil. Authorities say that a profile of Keil published in the Northern Express Weekly included a photo that appeared to show that he had more plants than he was authorized to possess, the Traverse City Record Eaglereports.
Kalkaska County Prosecutor Brian Donnelly said that he’s not sure whether police will seek charges against Keil.
“There’s not enough consensus on this … I don’t want to be in the position where we appear to, or actually do encroach on something that’s legal,” Donnelly old the Record Eagle. “If it turns out there’s a prevailing legal (opinion) that we should have taken the rest of them, we can go back and take them all.”
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