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.
Parents in the small Clinton county town of St. Johns are pushing their school district to take action against a bully in one of their elementary schools. The student has been identified as a third grader, and according to WLNS, the Lansing based CBS affiliate, the bully has been involved in a string of hostile [...]
Schools across Michigan are shutting down because of the appearance of a flu like illness. Kalamazoo County Health Department says several districts in the county will shut down for the next two days, and individual schools in two other districts are shutting down, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
When the Committee of the Whole of the Lansing City Council meets today, the council members will be taking a close look at the $132 million in various projects which Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero’s administration has floated for funding through the federal economic stimulus package. Bernero has already submitted the same list to the U.S. [...]
As I have been reporting over the last week, lobbyists, local governments and the state have been scrambling to put together a comprehensive list of so-called shovel-ready projects in anticipation of the passage of the President Barack Obama’s stimulus package. And while all of these groups are struggling to hit the mark on a moving [...]
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