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.
A state representative from the Flint area told the Davison School Board last week that the funding mechanism for Michigan’s public schools is “broke.”
According to the Flint Journal, Rep. Richard Hammel, a Mt. Morris Democrat, said:
“The School Aid Fund is broke, there is no money.”
Hammel is vice-chair of the House Appropriations Committee and vice-chair of the School Aid Fund Commission, which adds significant weight to his declaration.
The School Aid Fund is a pooling of state revenues from such places as cigarette taxes, property taxes and the lottery. That money is then doled out to the state’s public schools based on the number of students attending the school. The per pupil allowance was reduced this year as part of a difficult and contentious budget process that saw $1.3 billion in cuts, but no additional revenue streams. Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently postponed a mid-year adjustment to monies for schools based on a projection that state coffers will have more money than expected.
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