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.
It was another banner year for Lenawee county, officials say. But the distinction is not one they are likely to be proud of.
With years of crushing economic conditions, from record high unemployment to collapsing real estate markets and crushing debts, Michigan residents have been hammered in the cash flow department. That has resulted in record numbers of lender foreclosures and increased pressures on social services in the state. Now, it’s showing up in tax foreclosures.
The Adrian Daily Telegram reports that Lenawee county has begun proceedings to foreclose properties because of late property tax payments on a record 560 properties. The paper reports that in 2006, the number of tax foreclosure notices was 217. Last year it was 506 properties.
In 2009, 339 properties reached a show-cause hearing on foreclosure, the next to last step before the county gets a foreclosure order allowing it to seize the property and sell it recover property taxes. Last year, 395 properties made it to that point.
But some of those properties may be late on tax payments by no mistake of the homeowner.
Notices were questioned by several owners who appeared Monday, said Assistant Lenawee County Prosecutor Douglas Hartung. The owners said their mortgages have been transferred to different lending institutions and they believe taxes would have been paid if the proper banks were notified the mortgaged houses could be sold. Hartung said those questions are being reviewed.
This of course could easily tie into the ongoing mortgage crisis which helped fuel the economic collapse in the country two years ago.
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