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.
In what can only be interpreted as bad news for a start-and-go economic recovery, weekly initial unemployment claims took another big jump last week, up to 429,000 from 404,000.
That pushed the four week average over 400,000 for the first time in two months. That it was below 400,000 for several weeks was seen as very good news by economists, but this sudden reversal the last two weeks is causing great concern over the possibility of a double-dip recession.
Meanwhile, the total number of people getting unemployment benefits dropped by nearly 113,000, which means a large group of people exhausted their benefits.
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