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.
Our two U.S. Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, announced more stimulus money bound for Michigan this week. $1.9 million will help fund wind energy research in the state, while $42 million is earmarked for rural wastewater projects around the state. In the press release, Stabenow said of the latter projects, “Water contamination not only [...]
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 [...]
In April, Michigan Messenger reported that only 13.1 percent of the $847 million in transportation project funds allocated to Michigan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had actually been approved for specific projects. Ten weeks later it appears that the federal stimulus backlog is lessening and the situation has improved. A new Government Accountability Office report shows that $421 million of those funds are now obligated and approved for specific projects, 49.7 percent of the total allocated funds.
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) is asking Gov. Jennifer Granholm to reconsider a plan announced Friday that would close eight prison facilities six of which are in his Northern Michigan district. “I am deeply concerned with the impact the closure of these facilities will have on the communities in which they are located,” Stupak wrote [...]
While the State House did vote to approve $2.1 billion in stimulus funds released by the feds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), House Dems say a move by GOP colleagues could jeopardize the state ever receiving the money.
The Michigan Department of Community Health’s Tobacco Quit Line has been so successful that the state shut it down. After announcing early last week the Quit Line would be offering Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) to qualified individuals, the help line was flooded with calls.
President Barack Obama announced today federal funding for law enforcement made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Michigan is slated to receive just over $67 million, of which $25 million will be spent on local law enforcement organizations, and the balance of $41 million on Michigan law enforcement. The entire list of [...]
In a press conference this morning at the U.S. Department of Transportation, President Barack Obama announced the release of the first $26.6 billion in transportation construction money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The $787 billion act was signed into law two weeks ago.
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