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 new study by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights finds that the more than 90,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers who come to Michigan every year, particularly at harvest time, often live in substandard housing, toil under terrible working conditions and face discrimination. The Muskegon Chronicle reports:
Thousands of migrant farmworkers in Michigan are living and working in “intolerable” and “unconscionable” conditions, according to a scathing report released Monday by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission…
The report details the bad housing, discrimination and poor working conditions in the fields that many farmworkers face.
The commission came up with 15 recommendations and urged the civil rights agency to work with other departments to improve housing inspections, ensure that workers get a fair wage and get the word out about water and bathroom facilities.
The report called on state agencies and local law enforcement to react more quickly to allegations of illegality on the part of management, increase inspections on the housing for seasonal workers and swiftly enforce the law with fines and penalties.
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