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 Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept. is expected to take over law enforcement in the city of Pontiac now that members of the Pontiac police department have voted to dissolve their union contract.
The Detroit News reports:
Neither Pontiac Police Chief Val Gross nor MAP executive director Fred Timpner could be reached for comment this morning. But union members confirmed members of the Michigan Association of Police, which represents the layoff-depleted Pontiac police force, voted 31 to 5 to end their contract that runs until 2012. Thirty-eight of the city’s current 48 officers are represented by the union.
The vote — the latest in a series of events involving public safety in the cash-strapped city of 66,000 residents — is expect to lead to a controversial $10.2 million contract that will install 74 deputies in the city and create 10 new fire dispatch positions. That manpower would restore the number of officers to levels of nearly three years ago. There are less than 50 officers currently on the city payroll.
Pontiac is currently under the authority of state-appointed emergency financial manager Michael Stampfler.
A measure approved yesterday by the Michigan Senate would give Stampfler the power to dissolve labor contracts.
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