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.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has reached a compromised with a majority of the Detroit City Council on budget amendments that would allow the city to keep open 77 parks slated for closure due to steep cuts in funding. The Detroit News reports:
Bing is expected to submit the amendments to council Tuesday morning that would restore about half of the $31.8 million the council trimmed in addition to $100 million in cuts Bing proposed in his $3.1 billion budget that starts Thursday.
Bing’s staffers said they are confident they have at least five council members who support the compromise. A vote is likely Wednesday.
Parks would remain open and grass cutting would continue, and the city would not lay off 33 EMS workers. Bing had warned of 100 police layoffs. It’s not clear yet how many of those would be averted, but it would be reduced, said Karen Dumas, a Bing spokeswoman. The plan restores $4.6 million of the $6.7 million the council cut from the police budget.
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