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.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the trial of Arthur Blackwell II, the emergency financial manager appointed by the state to run Highland Park, is about to begin. And offers some background on what got him into legal hot water in the first place:
The Benton Harbor/Twin Cities Chapter of the NAACP is worried that the state’s financial takeover of the city will result in the disenfranchisement of voters and a sell-off of city assets, the Herald-Palladium reports. On Tuesday members of the group picketed outside an invitation-only meeting between emergency manager Joseph Harris and community representatives.
Years of financial mismanagement and the fact that the city needed emergency assistance to make payroll last week convinced the governor to appoint an emergency manager to take over control of the finances of Benton Harbor, the Herald-Palladium reports. Granholm’s move comes despite an appeal by the Benton Harbor City Commission which hoped to develop [...]
A seven member financial review team appointed by the governor to investigate Benton Harbor’s financial situation has found that a local government financial emergency exists in Benton Harbor and is recommending that the governor appoint an emergency financial manager. The panel said that state intervention is necessary in Benton Harbor, “because no satisfactory plan exists [...]
DETROIT — Detroit Public Schools’ Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb will keep control of district finances for an additional year, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced at an appearance with Bobb this morning. Bobb, appointed by Granholm in March to oversee the school district’s budget crisis, said he wants to use the extra time to create savings [...]
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