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 working group tasked with putting together a new Freedom of Information Act policy for the city of Lansing in the wake of two incidents where private information was released in response to FOIA request is, as planned, meeting privately at Lansing City Hall at this moment. The press was not allowed into the room for the discussions.
There is some question whether this violates the state’s open meetings law and disagreement even among members of the working group as to the propriety of meeting in private rather than in public. One person who objected to the private meeting was Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, who is the one who pushed for the new policy to prevent such releases in the future.
Wood went into the room where the group was meeting, then came out and told the Michigan Messenger, “I went in and explained that I thought it was extremely important this be an open process.”
She was asked to stay and observe the process herself but refused. “I wasn’t going to stay because it wasn’t an open process, it was a closed meeting,” she said.
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