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 Department of Labor’s Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for April is out and the news is decidedly mixed. Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped .1, from 10.3 percent to 10.2 percent — but it did so while the actual number of jobs in the state went down.
The total number of jobs in the state of Michigan went down by 10,200 in April. So why did the unemployment rate go down? Likely because that number was more than balanced off by the number of people exhausting their unemployment benefits, which means they are no longer counted in the official unemployment figures.
Though Michigan’s jobless rate has fallen consistently for the past year, it remains one of only seven states with a rate in the double figures.
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