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.
DETROIT — Wednesday afternoon’s Wayne County courtroom standoff featured lawyers for the mayor who’s up for re-election next week, and city’s largest public employees union whose 3,500 members find themselves at the center of the debate over Detroit’s ballooning $300 million budget deficit.
Diane Bukowki at the Michigan Citizen is reporting that Detroit mayoral candidate Dave Bing is a member of a business group that is urging the sale of part of the city water system. Unions and residents are upset with the quiet move to sell off city infrastructure, Bukowski reports, and Bing (who as a former [...]
Home foreclosures, frugal water use and a cool summer have resulted in a cash flow problem for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the Detroit Free Press reports; the department is planning to respond with rate increase next month. Water rates are expected to go up by as much as 10 percent and sewer rates [...]
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