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.
Michigan State University and Wayne State University could face a combined $31 million in state revenue cuts if John Nixon, Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget director, determines the 6.9 percent tuition increases for this fall are actually more than that.
The Associated Press reports that an analysis by the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency has tagged the increases at the two schools significantly higher than a 7 percent increase cap Snyder said would result in more revenue cuts if exceeded. The House Fiscal Agency report released Tuesday says MSU and Wayne State actually increased tuition rates by 9.4 percent and 8.8 percent respectively. The Agency made the determination in a comparison with 2010 tuition rates.
Universities and colleges were hit with 15 percent budget cuts this year in the budget, but Snyder’s administration said that any of those entities that kept tuition increases below 7 percent, would receive a significant portion of those eliminated budget dollars back.
There is no word on when Nixon is expected to issue his determination.
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