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 Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling from the Genesee County Circuit Court that had put a hold on implementing legislation that would remove thousands of families from the public assistant rolls. The lawsuit continues, but the state government can continue to remove people while the trial is pending.
Democratic legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to introduce a bill today to extend federal unemployment benefits for another year.
Gov. Rick Snyder said that the state is reconsidering the new Dept. of Human Services ‘asset test’ that denies food assistance to people who own cars worth more than $15,000.
Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create jobs — despite frequently claiming that the stimulus bill created no jobs.
Michigan assesses severance tax when companies remove natural gas and oil and some state officials say operators of high-grade metallic mines should also be charged for removing minerals from the ground. In an article published in The Bridge today Jeff Alexander writes that Michigan could raise $400 million in revenue from Kennecott’s UP nickel and [...]
The 2012 Farm Bill will be hotly debated in Congress in coming months, as members look to cut spending from the federal budget. But recent reports detail a move to include major agricultural cuts in the deficit reduction plan to be developed by the so-called congressional “Super Committee,” as a way to ensure that legislators don’t make even more drastic cuts when they write the forthcoming farm legislation.
Residents of southwest Detroit and members of Occupy Detroit stopped truck traffic to the Ambassador Bridge Thursday as they protested the business practices of bridge owner Matty Maroun.
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.
Rep. Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth), the legislator who wrote the bill to diminish Michigan’s social safety net and remove residents from the assistance rolls, says the unemployed will just have to “man up and feed their family.”
It’s been a good week for Chrysler. The United Auto Workers ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with nearly 55 percent of the vote and the company also announced a third quarter profit of more than $200 million.
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