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.
A small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments.
The move comes as the GOP claims the two universities violated a tuition restraint deal in the most recently enacted budget deal which goes into effect Oct. 1. That deal cut aid to universities 15 percent so long as the universities held their tuition increases to no more than 7.1 percent.
The heart of the matter is what constitutes an academic year? MSU argues that they kept within the ceiling because the tuition increase from summer semester into autumn was 6.9 percent, reports the State News. However, the GOP argues that using an academic year of autumn to autumn the actual increase was 9.4 percent.
MSU is defending itself against the claims.
University spokesman Kent Cassella said in a statement the proposed bill continues a decade-long trend of disinvestment in higher education by the State of Michigan.
“This type of bill further exacerbates disinvestment by the state,” he said.
Members of the Board of Trustees were taken aback by news of the bill.
MSU Trustee Mitch Lyons, a Republican, spoke out against the proposed law.
“I don’t agree with the legislation,” he said. “From what I understand, MSU was completely transparent.”
MSU Trustee George Perles said officials are failing to properly represent the state.
“They’re not living up to their obligations with the state budget,” he said. “They’re not living up to what they promised.”
State Budget Director John Nixon earlier this summer determined that MSU and Wayne State had not violated the tuition increase cap.
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