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 three judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course is a “park and/or a public purpose” and therefore does not conflict with the 1917 deed that conveyed a 90 acre stretch of Lake Michigan dunes to the city of Benton Harbor as a public park.
The ruling by Judges Deborah A. Servitto, Richard A. Bandstra and Jane E. Markey is a victory for the developers of Harbor Shores, a posh real estate and commercial development centered around a golf course that covers part of Benton Harbor’s Jean Klock Park.
Plaintiffs in the case argued that by issuing a 105 year lease to developers, Benton Harbor had violated the terms of the deed that specified that the park be forever used as “bathing beach, park purposes, or other public purpose.”
Benton Harbor is an extremely poor town, and the golf course that’s been built in the park is expected to charge annuals fees of more than $3500.
Earlier this month U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell dismissed a case that claimed federal agencies violated environmental laws when they approved the swap of contaminated industrial parcels for public park land.
The conversion of the park required both state and federal approvals because the park was improved with federal grants.
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