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 federal judge has dismissed the Detroit city employee pension systems’ legal challenge of the law that allows state-appointed Emergency Managers to take over local governments and void labor contracts.
On Friday U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox said the issues in the case weren’t “ripe” for review because the law has not yet impacted Detroit’s pension funds, Bloomberg reports.
The pension boards argued in court papers that they would “suffer significant hardship” if the law wasn’t erased. They raised the possibility in their complaint that Detroit’s retirement systems could be seized.
“Plaintiffs have been subjected to nearly constant threats of appointment of an emergency manager and the exercise of the czar-like powers granted under the act if they do not capitulate and fully agree to all of the demands of the mayor” of Detroit, they said in a July filing.
Another challenge to the Emergency Manager law has been filed in Ingham Circuit court. Gov. Rick Snyder has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to rule on that case directly.
The state’s high court has not yet announced whether it will take up the case.
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