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.
It only took three years, $1 million in rental payments and a visit by the director of the Department of Human Services himself for workers at the Pierson Road Department of Human Services offices to get permission to move out of a building hampered by leaking roofs, mold and mushrooms growing from carpets. The Flint [...]
The Detroit News reports what has been obvious for quite some time, that the state agencies that oversee social services for the unemployed and impoverished are struggling with massive workloads brought on reduced staffing accompanied by a record number of people needing their services.
Chris Christoff of the Detroit Free Press has an entirely unsurprising article about how state offices that handle unemployment, food stamps and Medicaid are being overrun with new clients as Michigan continues to lead the nation in unemployment and the Department of Human services has been cut to the bone with 320 recent layoffs. The [...]
The Detroit News reports on perhaps the most unsurprising study since the Rand Corporation famously determined that water is, in fact, wet. This study concludes that the state of Michigan is unprepared to handle a flood of residents newly in need of Medicaid, food stamps and other social services.
Ron French has an important article in the Detroit News documenting how deeply Michigan’s budget, and thus the scope of services the government provides, has been cut since the beginning of this decade. The key passage:
The compromise budget bill passed by the Michigan Senate on Thursday and the House on Friday will be signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the Detroit News reports. The House, however, did not give that bill immediate effect when they passed the bill this morning, so it may be next week before the bill is signed. [...]
LANSING – With the budget crisis out of the way – for 30 days at least – the Michigan Senate is getting back to its normal schedule of 10 a.m. sessions Tuesday through Thursday. In a routine week filled with committee hearings, the Senate Families and Human Services Committee’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday of Ismael [...]
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