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 Department of Labor’s latest report shows a slight decline in new unemployment claims this week, from 404,000 to 402,000. The four-week average stands at 405,500. This is still well above the post-recession lows in the early spring.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in the state of Michigan dropped to 10.1 percent in September, fueled by a one percent jump in education and government jobs as schools and universities went back to work. That’s a decline of .9 percent in unadjusted numbers.
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