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.
For the second time in a year, employees and residents whose livelihoods depend upon the Muskegon Correctional Facility are facing news that the prison will be shuttered.
The prison was slated for complete shut down a year ago as part of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s budget plans, but it received a reprieve after Pennsylvania decided to rent the facility and place over 1000 inmates under Michigan’s care.
But now, The Muskegon Chronicle reports, Pennsylvania says the deal is over and it will move its 1,100 prisoners back to the Keystone state within six months. That means 200 jobs will go with the prisoners, who were expected to have stayed until 2013.
“It just happened so quick, I’m still kind of in a state of shock, just like the prisoner population, just like the staff,” Warden Michael Curley said Monday.
Muskegon county officials are eying the facility as a possible location for a county jail.
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