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.
A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers.
The war on smoking continues and a new front is opening in Michigan’s upper peninsula. There, officials from the Public Health Delta-Menominee Counties (PHDM) are using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) money to snuff out smoking in private apartment units, reports the Escanaba Daily Press. The program focuses on multiple unit housing locations, such [...]
The Lansing State Journal has an interesting report this morning about how the Michigan Department of Transportation is reusing the concrete materials from a stretch of I-96 repairs. MDOT is currently replacing an entire six mile stretch of the highway on Lansing’s west side, which means the workers are literally ripping up the roadway all [...]
Jackson county is turning over about $23.5 million in federal bonds back to the state because it was unable to use all the funding, reports the Jackson Citizen Patriot. The bonds were authorized as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) — commonly referred to as the stimulus bill — in a program [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has joined with 41 other governors in asking Congress to extend the increase in federal matching funds for Medicaid that was built in to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, that was passed last year. In a letter addressed to the leadership in the U.S. [...]
Officials in Jackson county are not happy that they didn’t see any of the millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for “shovel-ready” projects. Those officials worked with the administration of Gov. Jennifer Granholm to compile lists of projects that could quickly be launched if money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) were [...]
According to a report filed by the state of Michigan with the federal government, the use of federal stimulus funds in the state created or saved 19,500 jobs that would otherwise have been lost. That figure includes only the $3.7 billion given directly to state agencies, not to funds given to local governments or to [...]
Several municipalities in the state of Michigan will receive an additional $55 million in funds from the federal government, most of it going to help city and municipal bus systems upgrade to alternative fuel buses and vehicles for their fleet. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Recovery Act spending is uneven and is not necessarily flowing to the areas most in need, according to a ProPublica analysis published this week. Though Michigan has the nation’s highest unemployment rate –15.2 percent — it has so far received only $366.20 per capita in federal Recovery Act funds. Wyoming, with an unemployment rate of [...]
The director of Michigan’s Economic Recovery office said this week that the state does not have the capacity to post comprehensive information about how it spends federal stimulus money on its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act website. The comments by Economic Recovery Office Director Leslee Fritz were in response to a recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Good Jobs First that criticized Michigan and other states for failing to use the Internet to effectively disclosure Recovery Act spending.
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