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.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Federal Bureau of Prisons officials once again toured the Standish maximum security prison, which has been shut down since late last year, to see if it will work as a federal prison. This is the second visit they’ve made and the town is hoping for a positive result that will re-employ some local residents.
City leaders, state prison officials and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Menominee Democrat, led federal officials on a tour of the prison Tuesday morning, then drove them into town for a private lunch at a golf club.
Along the route into town, a dozen or so freshly printed, campaign-style yard signs read: “Federal Bureau of Prisons — Welcome to Standish.”
“It’s very early in the process, but right now everything looks very positive,” Stupak told reporters. “I’m optimistic it will happen.”
Strangely, the article shows one local resident protesting the possibility, holding a sign that said “not for sale.”
“Is the sale of this going to balance Michigan’s budget?” the man asked. Well no, but it would provide at least a couple hundred more jobs for the local area. And having the prison sit empty isn’t balancing the state budget either.
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