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.
Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. is closing a factory in that economically-depressed city, eliminating 216 jobs. I sure am glad we gave Whirlpool $19 million in stimulus money to help create jobs, aren’t you?
But not to worry. Those newly unemployed workers can always apply for minimum wage jobs at the Harbor Shores private golf course, where they can serve lunch to Whirlpool executives who paid for that development — and swapped contaminated land for pristine lakefront property to improve their views from the second tee — or perhaps to Rep. Fred Upton, the Whirlpool heir whose home sits near that prestigious golf course.
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