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.
Joel Westrom, the former chair of the Marquette County Republicans, has plead no contest in a criminal case stemming from a failed condo development in the upper peninsula city of Marquette.
A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but it is treated as a guilty plea for sentencing considerations by the court.
In exchange for the no contest plea to a misdemeanor charge of false pretenses, four felony charges were dismissed, reports the Marquette Mining Journal. He now faces a June 24 sentencing hearing. As part of the deal, prosecutors are expected to recommend probation and no jail. If a jail sentence is handed down by the judge, prosecutors will seek a deferred sentence.
The case stems from the failed Hawks Ridge Condominiums in Marquette. Westrom was the property manager of the development.
He is the second Republican tied to the development to plead guilty to charges stemming from the management and operations of the development. In February, Michael Scott Gokey, a former top aide to former Gov. John Engler, plead guilty to the crime of fraudulent use of a building contractor fund.
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