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.
Due north of the city of Detroit lies Oakland County, home to more than 1 million people — and rarity of rarities, a newspaper that’s growing in circulation.
According to a story by the Associated Press, The Oakland Press (“the best place for news in and around Oakland County”), notched the third highest increase of all U.S. newspapers with a paid circulation of more than 50,000 compared with circulation figures from last year.
From the AP report:
Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show The Oakland Press of Pontiac saw its average daily circulation increase 7.26 percent to 68,067.
No explanation was given for the good news (pun intended), beyond noting that the Journal Register Co., publisher of The Oakland Press and other newspapers, emerged from bankruptcy back in August and had successfully secured new financing.
For comparison’s sake, the AP story went on to document Detroit’s daily newspapers’ current circulation numbers — both of which tumbled down:
The average daily circulation of the Detroit Free Press, which reduced its home delivery to three days a week earlier this year, declined 9.6 percent to 269,729. Its Sunday circulation fell 7.5 percent to 560,188.
Circulation for The Detroit News, which dropped its home delivery to two days, dropped 5.9 percent to 167,849.
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