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.
State lawmakers are preparing to pass one of three budgets left for approval prior to the state’s new fiscal year, which begins Oct 1.
Both chambers of the legislature have approved 12 of 15 state departmental budgets already, reports MLive.com. Still waiting for approval are budgets for general government, human services and transportation are still waiting for votes. The Senate is expected to take up the general government budget in Wednesday’s morning session.
The general government budget includes the 10 percent pay cut for lawmakers approved last year.
Lawmakers are expected to pass the budget bills before the deadline, avoiding temporary shut downs which characterized the budget battles last September and in 2007. Those battles resulted in short lived, but controversial government shut downs.
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