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.
A study conducted by The United States Conference of Mayors and The Council for the New American shows the jobs that have been lost in Metro Detroit in the decade long recession are unlikely to recover until 2020, reports Mlive.com.
Unfortunately, Metro Detroit’s 11.3 percent unemployment rate remains one of the highest in the nation, and the report offers several other sobering statistics and predictions for the region.
Most notably, Metro Detroit — along with rustbelt compatriots like Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown — is unlikely to return to its peak employment level until at least 2020. The region lost an estimated 323,400 jobs in the past decade after peaking in the first quarter of 2005.
Overall, the report suggests nearly half of the nation’s metro areas — many greatly impacted by the housing bubble burst and reliant on manufacturing — face the prospect of such a “lost decade.” Most metro areas are on the mend, but some of them are healing more slowly than others.
The report also stated that while the unemployment rate for Metro Detroit may have dropped 3.5 percent through the first quarter of 2011 the area’s economy only rose .6 percent in the past ten years and has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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