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 is perhaps appropriate that Saturday has been declared Michigan Agriculture Day, as the state government has a fair amount of (presumably Michigan-produced) egg on their face after approving a $9 million tax break for an apparently non-existent company invented by a convicted con man — and letting that man appear on stage with the governor to announce the whole thing. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Convicted embezzler and scam artist Richard Short was back in a Flint jail Wednesday — a day after taking a stage with an unwitting Gov. Jennifer Granholm to celebrate a $9.1-million state tax break for his new company.
State officials who oversee the breaks — but don’t do background checks — were humiliated. Republicans called for investigations into how a felon duped a state agency.
The man who sniffed this out, former CNN investigative reporter Patrick Clawson, said he cracked the case in a few minutes with an internet search — which is apparently beyond the capability of the state government.
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