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.
The foreclosure rate is down in eight Michigan regions, but it’s not because the economy is improving. The Grand Rapids Press reports that difficulties in completing the paperwork for foreclosures is slowing the process.
“These dramatic decreases indicate the foreclosure pipeline continues to be clogged in many local markets across the country,” RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio said in a statement. “Sometimes by a glut of already-foreclosed properties that are not selling quickly, sometimes by a mountain of improperly filed foreclosures that are blocking the inflow of new foreclosures filings — and sometimes by both.”
A RealtyTrac ranking of foreclosure rates in towns of more than 200,000 showed the following:
22. Detroit-Warren-Livonia
25. Flint
40. Lansing-East Lansing
51. Grand Rapids-Wyoming
60. Saginaw-Saginaw Township
67. Holland-Grand Haven
69. Kalamazoo-Portage
75. Ann Arbor
Allegations that fraudulent mortgage documents have been used to foreclose on Michigan homes has an investigation by the Michigan Attorney General.
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