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.
Officials in Jackson county are not happy that they didn’t see any of the millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for “shovel-ready” projects. Those officials worked with the administration of Gov. Jennifer Granholm to compile lists of projects that could quickly be launched if money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) were made available.
The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports many local officials are disappointed that infrastructure programs such as sidewalk creation did not receive any money. But Jackson County Administrator Randy Treacher goes a step further:
Jackson County Administrator Randy Treacher said he could sense early on that formulating a wish list wouldn’t be worth the effort, and instructed his team not to bother.
“What a horrendous waste of time,” Treacher said.
And Treacher was not alone in expressing frustration. Steve Duke, the principal planner for the Region 2 Planning Commission had this to day to the Patriot:
“It got these people all pumped up,” Duke said. “To have nothing come out of it is quite disappointing.”
As it turns out, the governor’s office collected $59 billion worth of “shovel-ready” projects.
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