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 Lansing City Council capped months of debate and division by voting unanimously Monday night to freeze the approval of new medical marijuana dispensaries until July 1, 2011.
LANSING — The city of Lansing is working on an amended policy about sex offenders renting city facilities, but there seems to be some confusion over whether that policy is official and will now be implemented or whether it is still in the process of being approved — and whether the policy is what the city council wanted in the first place.
As officials in the city of Lansing race toward the end of their budget process, a proposal to increase the city’s property tax rate by .4 mills has surfaced and could be voted on as soon as Monday night.
Correction: The central claim in this article has turned out to be false. Please read the full correction on the main story page.
Adrian Hill, the convicted sex offender recently arrested due to a Michigan Messenger investigation after three years of evading the police, was released on $250 bond within 36 hours of his arrest, without even a tether to track his location — and the story of why that happened involves a confluence of facts, all stemming in one way or another from continually shrinking state, county and local budgets, officials say.
The arrest of Adrian Hill, a man who had evaded authorities for the last three years and was one of the Lansing Police Department’s most wanted fugitives, has shed new light on what policy makers and law enforcement say are significant problems with the state’s sex offender registry.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has formed an exploratory committee for a run for governor, reports a Lansing television station. WLNS, the CBS affiliate in Lansing, reports Bernero will fill the paperwork for a possible run later this week.
After Lansing City Attorney Brigham Smith spent Wednesday afternoon explaining the policies and procedures he and his working group on Freedom of Information Act adherence put together in the last two weeks to the Lansing City Council’s Public Safety Committee, the committee sent Smith back to the drawing board with requests for more clarifications on the policy.
Members of the Lansing city attorney’s Freedom of Information Act policy working group left a 45-minute closed-door meeting on Friday promising a renewed spirit of openness going forward.
The working group tasked with putting together a new Freedom of Information Act policy for the city of Lansing in the wake of two incidents where private information was released in response to FOIA request is, as planned, meeting privately at Lansing City Hall at this moment. The press was not allowed into the room [...]
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