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.
It looks as if the big logjam of payments to car dealerships to reimburse them for the tax rebates they fronted to customers during the cash for clunkers program may finally be easing. The Detroit News reports that as of Thursday, the Department of Transportation had paid $500 million out to dealerships, about 17 percent of the total owed to them. That’s three times the amount paid out as of Monday, when only 5.7 percent of the money owed had been paid.
The DOT now has 3,000 employees and contract workers processing the applications and payments, which is ten times the number they originally had working on the program. That number will increase to 5,000 next week. Transportation officials pledged to have all of the payments processed by the end of this month.
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