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 court hearings continue over former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his required restitution payments, some very interesting tidbits have come to light. It had already been revealed that a group of prominent Detroit businessmen — Peter Karmanos, Dan Gilbert, Roger Penske and James Nicholson — had given Kilpatrick a $240,000 loan, which Karmanos [...]
Fortune Magazine contributor (and Detroit News columnist) Laura Berman chronicles the high-stakes twists-and-turns of Detroit booster businessman Dan Gilbert in an interesting story published on Fortune’s Web site earlier today. Berman notes that the Quicken Loans CEO is aggressively pursuing a two-state strategy, developing various business opportunities on both sides of the Ohio-Michigan state line. [...]
Michigan businessman Dan Gilbert, the chairman of Livonia-based online lender Quicken Loans, believes he has a considerably less-expensive answer to our current economic crisis, and he’s doing his best to get Congress to take notice.
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