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.
As the United States Postal Service struggles with losses estimated at $7 billion this fiscal year, it is attempting to make operational changes to save money — but that has one Michigan lawmaker quite upset. U.S. Rep. Dale Kildee, a Democrat from Flint, has written a letter to the Postal Regulatory Commission — which oversees [...]
President Obama has named a longtime aide to U.S. Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Flint) to be his senior adviser for Native American affairs. Kimberly Teehee, who has been an aide to Kildee since 1988, will serve on the Domestic Policy Council in the White House.
WASHINGTON — For a while now at The Washington Independent, sister site to Michigan Messenger, we’ve been keeping an eye on developments in the shrinking cities movement. It’s a new idea for urban development, aimed at saving cities by making them smaller: Cordoning off the sections that are abandoned and marred by blight, urging the [...]
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