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.
In an optimistic fashion section profile of Detroit the New York Times reports that the city “seems like a giant candy store for young college graduates wanting to be their own bosses.”
A new report that grades states on their disclosure of subsidies to business notes that four of Michigan’s five major subsidy programs now have some online recipient disclosure but gives the state a C- for overall transparency of the programs. The Good Jobs First analysis of Michigan subsidies finds that there is no public disclosure [...]
If Michigan farms supplied all of the fruits and vegetables that people eat here during the growing season around 4,000 jobs would be created, according to a new study commissioned by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Patty Cantrell, senior policy analyst at the Michigan Land Use Institute writes that the [...]
An Israeli wastewater treatment company will locate a pilot project in Oakland County, Lt. Governor John Cherry announced this week from Tel Aviv, one of the stops on an economic development mission to the Middle East. EPC Ltd. Onsite Wastewater Solutions (EPC) is a developer of waste water treatment systems that “focuses on development, production [...]
Developers of a controversial golf course in Benton Harbor are asking a federal judge to speed the proceedings in a lawsuit brought by area citizens who say the planned course involves unlawful taking of public parkland, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
With construction underway on Harbor Shores, a controversial publicly supported private golf-based resort in Benton Harbor, the president of the local economic development group points out that the service industry jobs created by the project cannot be outsourced.
For many months Axiom Entertainment has been trying to buy 1,700 acres of state forest to build Main Street America, a theme park the developers say would rival Cedar Point and bring millions of visitors and thousands of jobs to Crawford County in northern Michigan. But the state Department of Natural Resources has said it [...]
During a visit to the Lansing-area plant of a German engine company, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said that her administration’s effort to create new jobs is paying off. She visited MAHLE Engine Components USA Inc. in St. Johns to help celebrate the company’s expansion. MAHLE is a leading global manufacturer of components for the automotive and [...]
The Washington Post’s Kari Lydersen reports on the growing controversy over the proposed privatization of Benton Harbor’s lakefront park in “Depressed City Divided over Golf Proposal.” “Can three waterfront golf holes in a ‘Jack Nicklaus Signature’ course save Benton Harbor, a tumbledown town marked by factory closures, high unemployment, and years of simmering racial frustration [...]
In a recently released report by the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First, a DC-based national policy resource center, Michigan received an “F” grade for transparency when it comes to releasing information about the financial incentives given to corporations in the name of economic development. Good Jobs First evaluated the quality and quantity of [...]
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