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.
Students attending Detroit Public Schools are facing a shortage of books again this year, even though emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has made substantial efforts to trim costs and promote enrollment. Bobb has also said he would make sure enough textbooks were distributed to all classrooms when classes started this fall.
Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson told The Detroit News, “I have done visitations of 69 schools and with just about every one of them there’s been a problem with textbooks.”
But this year the book shortage is not due to unpaid bills, it has to do with the system’s overall inefficiency. That’s why DPS leaders pledged a “major overhaul” to textbook delivery services according to The News.
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