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 a city were an estimated 33 percent of the population doesn’t own a car, a proposal to cut bus services which are the city’s only method of public transit isn’t going to be taken well. So it should come as no surprise that the first public hearing on a proposal that would eliminate Saturday evening bus service and end Sunday service altogether would not go smoothly.
According to a Detroit News report, more than 250 protesters attended the first public hearing Monday morning. Some of them were there because they feared that without a bus to get them to work they would lose their job. Many were hecklers who were not there to hear the outlined plan for the cuts.
But according to The News, Mayor Dave Bing’s administration is already making moves to cut weekend service, enacting decisions that show the weekend cuts are more than an idea. Among the 113 Detroit bus drivers that will receive layoff notices this week are the drivers assigned to Saturday evening and Sunday routes.
Bing’s top aide Charles Beckham has said the cuts are necessary if the city is to stay out of bankruptcy and avoid receivership. Detroit currently is facing a $300 million budget deficit with bonds at junk status.
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