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.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order on Wednesday opening up all the healthcare plans currently available to state government workers to employees of all local governments, universities and public schools. Those plans include the state’s PPO plan, HMO plans, prescription drug coverage programs, dental-care plans and vision-care plans.
In a press release, Granholm said:
“A state health-care benefit plan recently negotiated with a number of state employee groups reduces the state’s cost of providing health-care coverage to every newly hired state employee by 21.3 percent. By offering other public employers and their employees the option of participating in this new state health-care benefit plan, we are in essence allowing them to reduce their costs, too, which will benefit all Michigan taxpayers.”
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