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 yet another sign of the weakening recovery, the American economy produced an anemic 54,000 jobs in May — not nearly enough to keep up with population growth — and the unemployment rate increased to 9.1 percent, according to the latest employment report from the Department of Labor.
Perhaps worse, the number of long-term unemployed, which the government defines as those jobless for 27 weeks or more, increased by more than 300,000 and ended at 6.2 million. That’s more than 45 percent of all unemployed Americans.
This was not at all unexpected given the bad news in the government’s economic reports for the past month. New weekly unemployment claims continue to average more than 400,000 per week.
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