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 city of Highland Park has already had an Emergency Manager for the entire city who was found by a court to have improperly used public funds, but now the public schools in that city might get their own manager.
The Detroit News reports:
Highland Park Schools has moved a step closer to appointment of an emergency manager after a preliminary review by the state determined the district was in “financial stress.”
Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan sent a letter to Gov. Rick Snyder this month asking him to appoint a team to undertake a “financial management review” of the district.
That’s one step short of the appointment of an emergency manager who would take control of the district’s finances and operations, and have the power to open and amend union contracts.
The school board is hoping to avoid the need for an Emergency Manager. An EM would have the power to void union contracts and sell off public assets without any accountability to local residents.
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