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.
The state House is holding hearings this week on a package of bills that would allow the state treasurer to appoint corporations to replace the elected governments of towns in fiscal crisis.
The legislation before the House Local, Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs Committee allows the state treasurer and state superintendent to appoint firms rather than individuals to take over insolvent municipalities and school systems.
The proposed law gives emergency financial managers the power to cancel existing labor contracts, suspend collective bargaining for up to five years, and remove officials from office and prohibit them from seeking office for 10 years.
Emergency financial managers would also get power to restructure local government, exclude elected officials from meetings and sell, lease or otherwise use local government assets to pay off debt, according to a House Fiscal Agency analysis.
The bills also make it easier for the treasurer to appoint an emergency financial manager.
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