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.
Thousands of property owners whose land borders state forests are facing possible trespassing charges for unauthorized buildings, pig pens, cellular towers and other structures built on state land.
The Detroit News reports:
There are 726 pending trespass cases before the forest management division that involve people building structures or storing items that sit totally or partially on state land.
Lori Burford, a resource specialist with DNR’s Forest Management Division, tells the paper that she doesn’t believe most of those cases are purposeful and are often the result of property line misunderstandings. The paper reports that 75 percent of the cases are settled when the property owner removes the infringing property. The remainder are often settled when the owner who has taken state forest land agrees to purchase more forest land for the state — a purchase of three to one in ratio.
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