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.
Troy Reimink of the Grand Rapids Press notes a bit of irony, the fact that the state of Michigan is receiving subsidies to pay for the health care of early retirees — money authorized by the health care reform bill that Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is suing to have struck down in federal court.
Secondary irony: The subsidies are also being received by Koch Industries, owned by conservative funders Charles and David Koch, who have bankrolled attempts to overturn or repeal the health care reform law.
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