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.
Auditors from the U.S. Dept. of Energy and members of the FBI visited Flint City Hall today as part of an investigation into use of a federal grant intended for weatherizing low income homes.
Rick Hass, deputy inspector general for audits and inspections at DOE, told the Flint Journal that investigators will examine the quality of work that is being done, whether the city has adequate controls over expenditures and how city employees paid with grant funding are spending their time.
The FBI has confirmed the presence of agents at City Hall but said that no search warrants were executed.
The Journal reports that at a press conference today city Mayor Dayne Walling said that city officials had turned over all requested information but would not take any questions from reporters.
Walling said he is not the subject of the investigation.
“I am committed to rooting out waste and fraud from Flint,” he said.
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