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.
Following up on Tuesday’s story about Attorney General Mike Cox’s ties to the foreclosure industry, Jason Moon, spokesperson for the state Office of Financial and Insurance Services, says Cox’s office has only brought charges in three of 16 cases referred to his office for prosecution.
“As of December 3, 2009, the AG’s office has charged three from the mortgage fraud referrals from our office over the previous two years and others were pending,” Moon wrote in a statement to Michigan Messenger.
He clarified that over the previous two years, OFIS attorneys have referred 16 cases for criminal action based on allegations of mortgage fraud.
An official from OFIS told the Detroit News in 2007 that the agency had handed the AG’s office cases “on a silver platter.”
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