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.
In the event of a hostage situation or high risk warrant service in Lenawee County, residents will find they are waiting longer for response from law enforcement.
According to the Adrian Daily Telegram, the county’s three department Emergency Response Team (ERT) has been shut down because of budget cuts.
The team was comprised of officers from the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Department, Adrian City Police Department and Tecumseh Police Department. The team was originally composed of 18 officers, but is now down to 14. The officials said that the cut was necessary because of budget constraints.
A written statement issued by [Lenawee County Sheriff Jack] Welsh said the leaders of the three agencies agreed that “increasingly severe budget limitations placed on their departments resulted in a situation where a choice had to be made between having patrols on the road or team members attending the necessary monthly training.”
Lenawee is not the only municipality struggling with maintaining public safety services in this period of shrinking tax proceeds and state revenue sharing. The City of Port Huron is considering eliminating its entire police department and paying the St. Clair County Sheriff to provide law enforcement in the city, while Ingham County has eliminated rural patrols, and reduced its patrol staff by two thirds in the last three years.
The Lenawee police officials said they would rely on the Michigan State Police emergency response unit, and that they are negotiating with both Washtenaw and Jackson county to provide those responses as well.
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