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.
Blogging for Michigan quotes a Gongwer report (subscription only) on a new study by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) that concludes that Michigan is among the states with the most regressive tax structures, resulting in the poor and the middle class paying a much higher percentage of their income in state [...]
The Michigan Senate passed a bill to create an amnesty period during which those who owe back taxes to the state can make good without additional fines or any threat of imprisonment. The law applies to those who failed to file a return, those who did not pay taxes that they owed and those who [...]
A compromise plan to reduce the funding cuts for K-12 schools in part by reducing the Earned Income Tax Credit for the state’s low income families has the Michigan League for Human Services, a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of Michigan’s poor, crying foul. In a press release, the MLHS says:
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