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.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to reconsider their earlier rejection of a request by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and other legal authorities in the Great Lakes states to issue an injunction to close down the locks separating the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal from Lake Michigan.
The court has several options:
The Supreme Court can take one of the three actions today: It could decline to hear the case, grant Michigan’s request for an injunction to close the locks or appoint a “special master” for the case that would investigate the matter further. A decision will be announced Monday.
I will be highly surprised if the court does either the second or third option. I think declining to hear the case is the most likely result.
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