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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

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Michigan has seen sharpest drop in unemployment rate

By Ed Brayton | 04.20.11 | 9:42 am

The latest Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Michigan led the nation in having the steepest drop in unemployment over the last year.

Michigan had the highest unemployment rate in the nation for several years running but in the past year has seen the jobless rate fall a full 3 percent. No other state saw their unemployment rate drop more than 2.2 percent over that time.

One shouldn’t get too exuberant over that fact, since a good portion of that drop in unemployment was due to people exhausting their benefits and no longer being counted. But even with that, Michigan did see an increase of 79,000 new jobs in the state since March, 2010. That was third behind Texas and California, two states with much larger populations than Michigan that saw their unemployment rates drop less than one percent during that time.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Sylvester/207100811 Joe Sylvester

    From MIRS yesterday…

    Bits And Tidbits
    Michigan Stays 5th In Unemployment
    Michigan maintained its distinction in March as the state with the nation’s fifth highest unemployment rate, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Michigan’s 10.3 percent rating marked the largest jobless rate decrease from March 2010 with a 3.0 percentage point decrease, outdistancing the 2.2-point decrease recorded by Illinois and the 2.1-point drop in Indiana.

    Also over the year, only Texas (251,100) and California (171,300) saw more jobs created than Michigan (79,000) in the last year.

    Nevada still has the nation’s highest unemployment rate (13.2 percent). California is at 12.0 percent. Florida is third with 11.1 percent and Rhode Island is fourth with 11.0 percent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ken.kolk Ken Kolk

    The unemployment rate will sky-rocket as soon as the results of the Jacobin Repub cuts to the school aid, revenue sharing, and state agencies with public employees represented by unions take place. The $1.8 billion tax break for businesses won’t create enough jobs to make up for the public employee jobs lost. This bunch of Tea Bag Repubs ran on a “jobs, jobs, jobs!” campaign, now we see what they meant is “cut public employee’s jobs, jobs, and more jobs!”

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