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.
Only a day after the public release of a state report that gives him the power to impose a contract including deep wage and benefit concessions on members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is moving to make that power a reality. The Detroit News reports:
Mayor Dave Bing is moving to end a yearlong standoff and impose a contract on the city’s largest union, after a labor fact finder blessed his calls for a 10 percent wage cut and benefit concessions.
Bing is set to present a report from the fact finder — and a list of recommendations he won’t disclose — to the City Council when it returns from recess Sept. 7. The panel must approve any contract imposed on the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
“The city and our taxpayers can’t afford another day of delay,” Bing said in a statement.
Whether the city council will go along with this plan is another matter. AFSCME leaders argue that any cuts made should be shared by all city employees, not just their union.
The city of Detroit is facing an $85 million budget deficit.
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