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.
Detroit’s two hometown newspapers seem to be telling different stories about Mayor Dave Bing’s position on negotiations with AFSCME and the prospect of layoffs. The Detroit Free Press declares that Bing is “unwavering on union contracts” and “sticking to his guns” when it comes to terminating the AFSCME contract and laying off hundreds of workers.
The Detroit News, on the other hand, says that Bing “may have backed down from his latest threat to terminate union contracts, impose concessions and lay off workers in his battle with organized labor over city finances.”
Given the record of threats that were later withdrawn from Bing, both of these could of course be true. And given Judge Amy Hathaway’s ruling requiring the city to go into arbitration with the union, it’s unlikely that Bing could lay off anyone now even if he wanted to without violating that ruling.
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