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.
The temporary continuation budget that Michigan lawmakers passed this month in order to avoid a government shutdown included a measure introduced by Sen. Jason Allen (R-Traverse City) to expand Michigan’s prison industries.
Michigan’s prison system costs 1.88 billion per year and involves a third of the state’s employees.
Allen told the Michigan Messenger that he wants to avoid cuts to the corrections system by making it do more to pay for itself. He wants Michigan prisons to make and sell textiles as Oregon does with it’s Prison Blues program, which focuses on denim wear.
Michigan Prison Industries already has the largest textile operation north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi, Allen said, at Jackson and Kinross, thousands of prisoners are making correctional uniforms, sheeting, bedding, towels and socks. His bill allows those products to be sold commercially.
Allen said that having a job is good for prisoners and that recidivism is lower among prisoners who make clothes in Oregon.
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