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 Michigan State Police are dramatically downsizing a planned state crime lab in Detroit, which would replace the city crime lab closed down in 2008 after an audit found high rates of errors in testing at the facility.
The Detroit News reports:
The Michigan State Police have angered Wayne County and Detroit officials by scrapping plans to put a full-service crime lab in the city’s police headquarters under construction in the former MGM Grand casino.
“I’m disgusted with their position,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Friday.
Deputy Mayor Saul Green told a legislative committee in Lansing last week the decision not to proceed with a $15 million crime lab, combined with the recently announced closure of the state police post in Detroit, “will have a severe detrimental impact on the city of Detroit and the entire state of Michigan.”
After the closing of the city crime lab, more than 12,000 rape kits were found that had never been analyzed at all.
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