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 GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there.
The Baldwin facility, Michigan’s only private prison, originally operated as a maximum security youth prison but sat dormant for six years before reopening in May with a plan to house more than 2,500 California inmates.
The Ludington Daily News reports:
California’s changing plans for its inmates will cost about 144 jobs in Lake County as The GEO Group prepares to transport the 270 Californian prisoners who are currently there back west.
[Paul Griffith, executive director of Michigan Works!] said about 161 people are currently working at GEO’s Lake County prison, which is named the North Lake Correctional Facility and is located near Baldwin in Webber Township.
“They will be keeping 17 key positions on understanding they want to keep a turnkey operation when they serve a new customer,” he said.
That leaves 144 employees who will be laid off Oct. 3.
California Governor Jerry Brown has said that he wants to move out-of-state prisoners back to California and house them in empty units there.
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