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.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) has come out vociferously against a proposal to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum security prison in Standish. During a Republican National Committee conference call with reporters, when asked about the desire from officials at the prison and the economically troubled Michigan town around it to [...]
Just as criminologists are baffled about an unexpected decline in violent crime in many of the nation’s biggest cities, Detroit’s new police chief is predicting that the “Wild West” nature of violent crime in the Michigan’s largest city will worsen and the rates of murders and other violent crime will increase. Warren Evans, the former [...]
Michigan’s weakening economy is putting the future of the National Asparagus Festival in dire straits, with organizers already $6,000 in debt from this past June’s celebration and doubts about whether the Oceana County tradition will return next year.
Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Synder, who has been criticized by Michigan’s conservative establishment, is set to make his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination official on Tuesday in Grand Rapids.
Facing a $259 million deficit and the unlikely prospect that it will be able to raise additional revenues or make substantial enough cuts, Detroit’s public schools may be forced to declare bankruptcy. The school district’s emergency financial manager, Robert Bobb, has been in what’s being called an “informational” talks with U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ray Reynolds [...]
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be traveling to Charlotte in Eaton County next week as part of an Obama administration tour of rural areas to showcase what’s been done with federal stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to benefit local communities through agricultural development. U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, who represents Eaton [...]
Two Native American communities in the Upper Peninsula will see infrastructure upgrades to drinking- and waste-water systems. Federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will benefit the Hannahville Indian Community of Potawatomie Indians near Escanaba and the Bay Mills Indian Community near Sault Ste. Marie. The Hannahville community will see $22,920 in [...]
According to her resignation notice, Monica Conyers’ last day as a Detroit City Council member was on Monday. But apparently, she didn’t even bother to show up at her offices at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on her last day. However, Conyers, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery late [...]
Economic forecasters at the University of Michigan are predicting that the state’s unemployment, currently the nation’s highest, will continue to rise into next year reaching 15.8 percent. Currently, the state’s unemployment rate stands at about 14.1 percent. According to economists George Fulton and Joan Crary, the state’s economic picture will see “some improvement” but over the course of this year, Michigan will lose about 311,000 jobs.
In an effort to streamline resources and increase efficiency of their respective news-gathering organizations, three television news stations in West Michigan have agreed share video footage of pre-planned events starting July 13. The news stations taking part in the content-sharing partnership are Kalamazoo’s Freedom Communications-owned WWMT-TV (CBS) and two stations in Grand Rapids, LIN TV-owned [...]
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