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.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Michigan Messenger and a coalition of partners representing media and open government appealed a decision by the Michigan Department of Community Health to deny access to information relating to H1N1 expenditures in 2009.
As Michigan Messenger reported Tuesday, MDCH officials refused to identify which private groups received items which were purchased by the state using federal money. The department claimed to reveal that information would violate Michigan’s anti-terrorism laws.
Experts called the decision by MDCH to deny the information “baffling” and “garbage.”
The appeal was filed by Messenger reporter Todd A. Heywood and was co-signed by Charles Davis, an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism; Rob South, a reporter and producer with WKAR radio and an adjunct professor at the Michigan State University School of Journalism; Berl Schwarz, editor and publisher of City Pulse newspaper in Lansing; Bonnie Bucqueroux and Bill Castanier, co-publishers of Lansing Online News; Chetly Zarko, co-founder of the Michigan Accountability Project; Neal McNamara, news editor of the City Pulse newspaper in Lansing; and Eric Barren, owner and editor of MichiganLiberal.com.
Under Michigan law, the state has 10 business days to review the matter and issue a determination on whether to release the controversial documents in full, in part or deny them again. Messenger could seek a court’s intervention on the matter.
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