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.
Over the past few months there has been a growing power struggle between the Detroit Public School Board of Education the district’s emergency financial manager Robert Bobb.
This month the Board sued Bobb for hiring private academic consulting firms to work in the district without notifying board members. Also this month, the board promoted the acting superintendent, Teresa Gueyser, to hold the position permanently, a move Bobb blocked by holding Gueyser’s pay.
Now, Bobb says he plans to sue the Board for hiring Gueyser without conducting a national search to fill the position and without first consulting him, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Bobb was appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm in January to control the district’s chaotic finances. According to The Free Press Bobb is suing so the board will repeal its decision to promote Gueyser and cede all future financial decisions to his authority.
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