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.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero said on Thursday that he would pull all state funds from those banks that do not cooperate with the state’s programs to help residents avoid foreclosure. The Detroit News reports:
If Virg Bernero is elected governor, Michigan will pull its money out of Wall Street banks that won’t work with the state’s businesses and residents, the Democratic nominee announced today.
“We’re not going to invest in Wall Street if they’re not going to invest in us,” Bernero told about a dozen citizens at a Lansing coffee shop. “We’re going to take our money out of Wall Street and create the ‘Main Street Bank.’
“This is the fight: Main Street vs. Wall Street — it’s not just a slogan. We’re going to get banks to work with people instead of taking their homes from them.”
Bernero is also proposing to open a state bank to lend money to businesses that can’t get credit in the usual markets. The mayor has long been active on the foreclosure issue. In April 2009 he intervened on behalf of a Lansing woman after a Michigan Messenger investigation revealed problems with her foreclosure and saved her home.
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