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 Michigan Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. He had appealed to the state’s high court in an attempt to keep documents that were part of a whistleblowers’ settlement from being made public. Both a Wayne County Court and the State Appeals Court had ordered Kilpatrick to release the documents.
The documents are related to sexually explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and his former top aide. The materials did not include the actual text messages but were legal agreements which led to a settlement for the city of Detroit to pay out $8.4 million to the whistleblowers.
The Michigan Supreme Court concurred with both courts that the documents were public matters, specifically noting that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) does not allow a public body to waive obligations under the law to make documents public. It also upheld the lower court’s ruling that there is no exemption under FOIA for documents in a lawsuit.
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