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.
It’s not the Standish prison, but a prison in Muskegon County is going to stay open because of an agreement to transfer 1,000 inmates there from Pennsylvania’s overcrowded prisons. The Detroit News reports:
Pennsylvania’s decision will save about 200 jobs at Muskegon Correctional Facility, which the state Department of Corrections had planned to close at the end of January. The Pennsylvania inmates will begin arriving Feb. 1.
“Wonderful is not the word — I’m ecstatic,” said Darren Ansorge, a guard at Muskegon Correctional Facility and president of the Muskegon chapter of the Michigan Corrections Organization. “The bottom line is 150 people will remain unharmed because of Pennsylvania coming.”
Unfortunately, this is the third blow to the hopes of the town of Standish, whose prison is still slated to close due to budget cuts. They had previously hoped to get inmates from Guantanamo Bay and from California, but both plans fell through. They were also in the running for the Pennsylvania transfers.
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