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.
Pontiac will be the first city where the state’s new Emergency Manager law is used to cancel a labor contract now that the state has approved a plan to void the contract with the city’s police dispatchers.
The move will allow Pontiac Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler to save an estimated $2 million by dissolving the city police force. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept. is expected to take over policing the city which has about 65,000 residents.
“We reached the conclusion there really is an impasse,” state Treasurer Andy Dillon, told the Associated Press. “We dug into it pretty deep to make sure his request was worth being approved.”
Two city police unions had already agreed Stampfler’s plan to shut down the department, and he fired the city’s police chief in March as the city moved toward shifting law enforcement responsibility to the sheriff’s department effective July 1.
Michigan police unions have promised legal action over the Emergency Manager law which they claim violates state and federal constitutional prohibits on passing laws to breaks contracts.
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