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.
New estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that Wayne County has lost more people than any other American county for the third year in a row, the Detroit News reports.
Wayne County lost 23,176 people in 2009, according to the report. Since 2000 the county has lost 135,513 residents.
Around a third of Detroit is now vacant and Mayor Dave Bing has proposed demolishing empty buildings as part of a plan to scale down the city and improve public services.
Bing is expected to provide new details about this plan during his first State of the City speech this evening, the News reports.
Bing is expected to detail plans to demolish 3,000 buildings this year and 10,000 in the next four years. In 2008, the city razed about 600. Demolitions could be a key step in downsizing, a broad, multiyear plan that intends to preserve viable neighborhoods to reflect population declines from about 1.8 million in 1950 to about 900,000 today.
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