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.
It’s been less than three weeks since Pontiac Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler outsourced city police patrols to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept. and already he is trying to renegotiate the contract.
The Detroit News reports:
State Department of Treasury officials, who oversee Stampfler, recently encouraged the emergency manager to cut 10 of the deputies to save $1 million.
That annoyed Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, whose deputies began patrolling the city Aug. 1 through a contract that replaces the disbanded Pontiac Police Department.
“I’m angry,” said Bouchard, who will meet next week with state treasury officials who supervise Stampfler. “We provided a floor, not a ceiling, to protect the citizens of Pontiac. The ink is still wet on the contract and they want to rewrite it?”
In July Oakland County vote to require Pontiac to prepay for police service. It’s unclear what type of police service will be provided for the city if it is unable to pay its bill.
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