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.
Michigan had one of the highest rates of return for census forms of any state in the country, so much so that census workers who were tasked with making door-to-door visits to homes that had not returned the forms by mail finished their job a few weeks ahead of schedule. The AP reports:
Census workers in Michigan have entered the next phase of the 2010 count after they more swiftly than expected wrapped up the door-to-door effort to find people who didn’t return their 10-question form.
Michigan had the country’s fifth-best mail participation rate, with 77 percent sending back the forms. That still left hundreds of thousands of residences for census enumerators to visit, mostly in Detroit.
Those visits, which had been planned through mid-July, wrapped up last month. The focus now is on telephone contacts or in-person stops to clarify earlier census answers, as well as a check to ensure vacant homes and apartments in fact are empty.
The need to get as accurate a count as possible is significant. Every resident not counted means the loss of more than $10,000 in federal funds.
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