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.
Since summer time, Detroit’s home values have apparently been rising — slightly — as the temperature has been dropping.
According to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices released earlier today, home prices in and around Michigan’s largest city rose by 1.8 percent compared with where they were in August. The same figures also indicate that home prices are still down by nearly 20 percent comapared with average home values last year. But still, rising home values are better than falling ones even if there’s still a lot more ground to make up.
And comapred with national numbers, metro Detroit’s slight uptick looks considerably better by comparison.
From the Detroit Free Press:
The home price declines have narrowed much more nationally, according to the data. For the nation’s 10 largest cities, home prices were down 8.5% through September, much better than the double-digit declines seen until earlier this year.
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