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.
Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, has called on the Treasury Dept. to provide details of what lenders have done to help people avoid foreclosure since Congress passed a bill encouraging them to engage in voluntary loan modification programs.
In a Sept. 17 letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Conyers wrote on behalf of the committee:
As you may know, the Committee on the Judiciary is considering ways to respond to the mortgage foreclosure crisis. Among proposals under consideration is an amendment to the Bankruptcy Code to permit judicial modification of the rights of holders of claims secured only by a security interest in the debtor’s principal residence. In effect, the amendment would authorize judicial modification of home mortgages, under certain circumstances.
To assess the need for this relief, we want to gauge the effectiveness of the Treasury Department’s current foreclosure prevention and loss mitigation efforts over the past six months. To that end, we ask that you provide information regarding the Department’s efforts to facilitate modification of home mortgages, which we understand occurs only if the servicer voluntarily agrees to such modification. We realize that this timeframe covers a period preceding the date on which the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) became effective on March 4, 2009.
According to Conyers, every day 195 homes enter into the foreclosure process in Wayne County, Michigan.
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