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.
In case you haven’t seen this already, some chap made a YouTube video of the legal notices of foreclosure in Wayne County. It’s rather surreal to see so many all in one tidy bundle of newsprint; residents across the state are used to seeing the telltale notice in the window here and there around their neighborhoods, but this experience doesn’t convey the enormity of the existing problem the way this video does.
A source recently told Michigan Messenger that foreclosures have run in excess of 8,000 a month in this state. One might wonder how high that number might be should one or all of the Big Three go into bankruptcy and fail.
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