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.
Activists from religious groups and labor organizations are planning to simultaneously withdraw all of their accounts from a major bank to protest that bank’s refusal to agree to a two-year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer funds during the bank bailouts. The Detroit News reports:
United Auto Workers President Bob King and religious leaders plan to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars from JP Morgan Chase accounts to protest the bank’s refusal to agree to a two-year freeze on foreclosures in Michigan.
King, farm union leader Baldemar Velazquez and two clerics will hold a conference on Friday at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit to announce their plans.
“Chase needs to help unemployed homeowners in Michigan and underpaid farm workers in the Carolinas,” King said in a statement. It said King was prepared to withdraw all of the UAW’s funds from the bank.
The company had no comment on the plan.
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