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.
Detroit Public Schools emergency manager Robert Bobb plans to propose a plan to Gov. Granholm for the state of Michigan to pay off more than $300 million in debt incurred by DPS over the last decade. The Detroit News reports:
The alternative, according to district spokesman Steve Wasko, is steep cuts, including building closures, teacher layoffs and reductions in bus service, to achieve a zero balance by 2014, as required by state law.
“Plan B would require some purely draconian measures, including increasing class size to a never-before seen average of 62 students,” Wasko said.
Wasko on Wednesday described the plan being formed by Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb as a “working document.” He said any deficit-elimination plan would have to be approved by the Legislature and the governor.
Which seems highly unlikely given that the state is facing a $1.8 billion deficit of its own next year.
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