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.
Employees of the state departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality have received notice that their departments will merge as of Jan. 17, 2010. DNR Director Becky Humphries and DEQ Director Stephen Chester told their staff members to expect details of the restructuring plan to be announced in an executive order to be issued by [...]
GRAND RAPIDS — Lt. Gov. John Cherry, in a public gathering where about 45 participants got to vote on the value of the functions of state government, said that before elected officials undertake an effort to streamline or restructure state government, Michigan residents and officials need to understand what it is supposed to do.
Four months after Gov. Jennifer Granholm publicly tasked her No. 2, John Cherry, with leading an effort to streamline government, Michigan’s official unemployment rate has hit 14.1 percent, the state is undergoing the steepest decline in revenue in at least a half century, and the state legislature is moving ahead with plans to combine two departments, Natural Resources and Environmental Quality.
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