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.
With mounting evidence of robo-signing and other alleged fraud perpetrated by banks, foreclosure law firms and others, Fannie Mae and Flagstar Bank have filed a new defense of such actions in Ingham County Circuit Court — and Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. is crying foul.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived in Michigan with encampments in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Since Friday activists in Lansing have camped out in downtown Reutter Park despite a city ordinance that prohibits use of the park after 10 pm without written permission.
DTE Energy is repossessing Highland Park’s street lights and selling them as scrap metal as part of a settlement over a $4 million dollar electric bill.
Grand Valley State University has become the third state university to provide gender neutral housing for students.
Michigan is no longer alone in suing lenders and banks for failing to pay title transfer fees, as two counties in two other states have now filed similar lawsuits.
Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) is working on legislation that would capture federal taxes paid by people and businesses in Detroit and use the money on redevelopment projects.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency filed suit Friday against 17 national and international banking giants for their roles in the toxic mortgage securities scandal that led to the current housing crisis.
Detroit has more than 100,000 vacant properties, and as widespread unemployment and home foreclosure make it harder for people to pay for housing, many are moving into abandoned homes as squatters.
Local and state officials are calling on the Michigan legislature to change the system for foreclosing on a property from its current foreclosure by advertisement system to one in which judges oversee the foreclosure process.
State and local officials held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce a push to eliminate Michigan’s foreclosure-by-advertisement law.
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