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 State University announced Tuesday that it would shutter it’s Dubai campus. MSU Spokesman Terry Denbow says the move comes as a cost saving measure, and notes the campus has lost money. How much money it has lost, however, was not made available.
The Lansing State Journal reports this in relation to losses at the campus, which opened in 2008:
The National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, quoted MSU Dean of International Studies Jeffrey Riedinger saying that the losses had been in the millions, largely because the campus opened just as the worldwide financial crisis was beginning.
The enterprise was financed mostly through grants from the Dubai government and loans from the Dubai government-owned TECOM Investments. As of last fall, MSU owed TECOM approximately $1.6 million.
MSU will provide the approximately 85 undergraduate students a chance to complete their degrees at the East Lansing campus.
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