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.
Figures released by the Williams Institute in California show that the 2010 census was a banner year for self-reported same-sex couples in Michigan.
The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to release the preliminary results of the 2010 census Tuesday morning and the result could mean a loss of one seat in the Michigan Congressional delegation.
Though the private sector added 64,000 workers in August, 77,000 census jobs and 76,000 local government jobs were lost.
Michigan had one of the highest rates of return for census forms of any state in the country, so much so that census workers who were tasked with making door-to-door visits to homes that had not returned the forms by mail finished their job a few weeks ahead of schedule. The AP reports:
Macomb County officials want undocumented workers to fill out their census forms. At stake, officials told the Macomb Daily, is $1,000 per person per year in federal funding. The census, conducted every 10 years, is a Constitutional requirement. The resulting numbers are then used for everything from federal funding formulas to representation in the U.S. [...]
The Detroit News reports on a new preliminary survey that shows that Detroit led all cities in the United States in loss of population last year.
The year 2007 proved to be a mixed bag for Detroit. The mortgage crisis hit the city especially hard as thousands of residents faced the threat of foreclosure. Save a brief strike, the UAW negotiations went well as the Big Three continue to adjust to soaring legacy costs amidst increased competition from foreign automakers. Mayor [...]
Is Detroit doing better than the U.S. Census indicates? A study, funded with money the city helped raise, says household income and total population are higher than the census reported, but a critic doubts the accuracy of the study.
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