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 a radio interview in Detroit this morning Rev. Jesse Jackson reiterated his call for the U.S. Justice Dept. to intervene against Michigan’s Emergency Manager law.
Enacted in March, Public Act 4 — the Emergency Manager law — allows the governor to appoint people to take over local governments, fire local officials and void contracts.
Emergency Managers are now in place in Benton Harbor, Pontiac, Ecorse, and the Detroit Public Schools.
Mlive.com reports:
“We have a profound economic crisis in the country and the state,” Jackson said this morning on WJR-AM 760. “There’s nothing about the economic crisis that should allow one to demolish democracy. The vote remains sacred even in a time of crisis.”
Jackson is scheduled to join Rev. D. Alexander Bullock this morning at Bethany Baptist Church in Detroit, where an emergency manager is running the public school district, as part of a Rainbow/Push Coalition campaign to “fight back and end voter and worker suppression” in Michigan.
Lawsuits in state and federal court are challenging the Emergency Manager law and there is an active campaign for a referendum on it. An EPIC/MRA poll earlier this month found that a strong majority would vote to reject the law if it were put on the ballot.
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