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.
Nearly 100 University of Michigan students rallied yesterday to protest plans to have Gov. Rick Snyder deliver the school’s commencement address next month.
“We know that Rick Snyder’s agenda is not about the budget; it isn’t about Michigan’s troubled economy, and it sure as hell is not about putting hard-working Michiganders back to work,” political science senior Zach Goldsmith told the Detroit Free Press. “It’s about Rick Snyder making his cronies even richer on the backs of the hardest working and poorest among us.”
Students also petitioned the University Board of Regents not to approve a plan to award Snyder an honorary doctorate degree at the commencement.
Michigan’s public universities are facing an average 21 percent cut in revenue from the state.
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