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 Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts is riding in the lap of luxury.
In spite of a plea from Jackson’s mayor and city manager, the Michigan Department of Treasury will not be reviewing the city’s finances as a potential first step towards a state take over of the city.
Benton Harbor’s emergency manager says he will issue an order rescinding a city commission resolution declaring the emergency financial manager law unconstitutional.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson says the move by Benton Harbor Emergency Financial Manager Joseph Harris is illegal.
The first lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new Emergency Financial Manager law has been filed in federal court by two Detroit city pension boards.
Having recently approved a law that allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers to take over local governments and schools, and with proposals to cut school funding and tax pensions in process, state Rep. Wayne Schmidt and State Senator Howard Walker — both Republicans — seemed to score few points with the 400 people who crowded into Traverse City’s Hagerty Center for a town hall meeting this week.
At least 150 school systems in the state of Michigan lack necessary reserves and may have a difficult time surviving the massive cuts to education spending proposed by Gov. Snyder and the Republican-led legislature.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Dept. is expected to take over law enforcement in the city of Pontiac now that members of the Pontiac police department have voted to dissolve their union contract.
The state House is holding hearings this week on a package of bills that would allow the state treasurer to appoint corporations to replace the elected governments of towns in fiscal crisis.
City of Pontiac officials signed an agreement with the Oakand County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday evening which will disband the local police department and shift law enforcement activity to the sheriff’s department, reports the Detroit News. The move is expected to save the financially strapped city $2 million. It currently has a $12 million budget deficit.
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