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.
Wrecking crews in Detroit are tearing down 300 to 400 houses each month as part of a Bing Administration plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned buildings by 2013.
Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Director Kim James told The Associated Press the city is well on its way to meeting the goal of tearing down 3,000 houses by April.
Mayor Dave Bing has estimated that up to 12,000 vacant houses are both eyesores and dangerous and need to be removed.
According to survey conducted by Data Driven Detroit more than a third of the 139 square mile city is now vacant land or abandoned hoses.
Some residents say that scavengers are tearing the houses down faster than the city program.
“Tearing houses down is very slow,” said retiree Phillip Ellis, 61, who lives on Heyden Street in Northwest Detroit. “People are stripping houses and tearing them down quicker than the city is.”
Ellis said he and the few neighbors who remain have sought the city’s help for more than two years.
With a budget deficit of at least $85 million Detroit has limited resources for removing empty buildings.
Bing spokesman Dan Lijana told AP that Detroit is exploring “innovative funding sources” in the corporate and philanthropic sector.
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