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.
From terrorism to discrimination to privacy issues, HIV-related issues made headlines in Michigan in 2009.
1. HIV-as-terrorism case in Macomb County
Perhaps the most watched, and outrageous, HIV related story of 2009 is the situation facing Daniel Allen, a 44-year-old Clinton Township resident who has been charged by Macomb County prosecutors under state terrorism laws.
A new report from Manpower has the Lansing area ranked among the worst in the nation in terms of expected job growth in the near future, the Lansing State Journal reports.
The fallout from massive cuts in local revenue sharing in the new state budget continues, as the city of Lansing has been forced to make deep cuts in the police and fire departments to make up for a $3 million shortfall. The Lansing State Journal reports that the firefighters union has agreed to nearly half [...]
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 [...]
LANSING– Lansing City Council member Carol Wood Monday released a draft of a proposed ordinance which will serve as a guide to city employees in the release of public information under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act. Under the proposed ordinance, city officials charged with responding to Freedom of Information Act requests and release private information, [...]
LANSING — City Council members on Monday night expressed concerns and misgivings about the application of chemicals to M-99 in the capital city, as first reported by Michigan Messenger this week.
LANSING — Local unions came out on Wednesday to endorse City Councilwoman Carol Wood in her race to unseat Mayor Virgil Bernero. Former Mayor Tony Benevides, is also voicing his support of Wood. “I am one hundred percent convinced she can win,” Benevides, Lansing’s first Hispanic mayor, said.
LANSING — The city attorney, Brigham Smith, said Friday that the city government is in the process of disabling access to the websites of any candidate for city offices. Smith said the move was in response to a complaint earlier in the week from Rina Risper, an at-large candidate for the city council. Risper, who [...]
The deadline to file to run for elected offices in the city of Lansing is 4 p.m. today, and as of 9:45 p.m. on Monday the ballot had 13 candidates vying for six offices. The six offices up for election are mayor, city clerk, two council member at large posts, and council seats for the [...]
The Lansing City Council got its first look at Mayor Virgil Bernero’s proposals for the anticipated multibillion-dollar federal stimulus package — a day before that list was to be submitted to the governor’s office.
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