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.
On Tuesday, Michigan Messenger reported about the move in the tiny Kent County village of Sand Lake to vote the municipality out of existence. Now comes word of another village, on the opposite side of the state, considering a similar vote on Aug. 3.
The Port Huron Times Herald reports that the village of Emmett — population 250, and 1.5 square miles in size — will face the vote in August after Village Councilmember Larry McLelland collected the necessary 34 signatures to force a vote. Two-thirds of the village’s registered voters will have to approve the measure for the St. Clair County village to cease to exist.
McLelland said the move was the result of a costly sewer program mandated by the state.
Matthew Leenknegt, a member of the Emmett planning commission, told the paper the sewer project ran to about $18,000 per household. The move was necessary, the paper reports, because the current septic tanks are leaking and draining raw sewage into the water system.
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