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.
When city officials estimated last week that Detroit was missing out on $1 million in state funds due to a late audit, they were way off.
The real amount the financially struggling city is missing out on is more than $24 million overall with $11.3 million of that figure withheld this month according to the Detroit Free Press.
The Department of Treasury is now withholding $24.5 million owed to the city because the required 2008-09 annual audit is eight months late. The state distributes revenue sharing on the last day of each even-numbered month.
That’s a substantial amount of money for Detroit right now, considering Mayor Dave Bing has been fighting to cut basic city services and worker pay just to scrape up what Free Press writer Suzette Hackney calls “piecemeal” savings.
Hackney writes:
The cuts seem almost piecemeal — $7 million here, $11 million there, another $10 million over here …
Bing released a statement saying that the audit for the 2008 fiscal year, which was due last fall when Ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was in office, will be submitted this October. The mayor, who was elected in May’s special election and is up for re-election in November, said future audits will be submitted on time.
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