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.
After the shutdown of the Detroit Crime Lab a couple years ago for a pattern of bad testing results, the work from that lab had to be spread to the 7 Michigan State Police crime labs around the state. A new plan will have the state police running a new lab inside the proposed new Detroit Police Department headquarters. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A plan announced in June to convert the old MGM Grand Detroit casino into a new police headquarters includes plans to build a state-of-the-art crime lab there.
This time, the lab would be staffed, not by city police, but rather by the Michigan State Police as its eighth testing facility, said Detroit police spokesman John Roach.
City and state officials, as well as prosecutors throughout the region, have applauded the idea, saying that the new lab would help alleviate the State Police’s months-long testing backlog that was aggravated with the 2008 shutdown of the Detroit lab.
The sooner that lab opens, the better for all involved. The other state labs, faced with persistent budget cuts, simply have not been able to keep up with the increased workload and this is having real effects on the ability of the courts to bring justice in a timely manner.
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