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.
Republican officials in Michigan are trying to put a brave face on the McCain campaign’s withdrawal from the state, but at least one county GOP chairman in the Petoskey area is having none of that. Politico reports:
Federal agency clears way for Emmet County’s negotiations with tarnished disaster-response privateer The Federal Aviation Administration has granted Emmet County the right to lease some of the Pellston airport for commercial use, reviving concerns in the Petoskey area about a controversial company that has pursued space at the airport for a training center. The FAA [...]
The Emmet County Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to approve Sovereign Deed’s plan to build a controversial disaster response base at the Pellston Regional Airport. Sovereign Deed is a private security company that advertises disaster response services to subscribers who would pay fees of $50,000 or more. In the event of a disaster, subscribers might [...]
Barrett Moore, the CEO of Sovereign Deed — a company that wants to develop private disaster relief services with financial assistance from the state and county governments– declared personal bankruptcy in 1998 and has been sued for illegal or deceptive business practices three times in the last three years. Sovereign Deed’s plan is to develop [...]
The CEO of a private security company that plans to locate its national response center in northern Michigan will respond to citizen concerns at a meeting on Tuesday. In August Sovereign Deed, a company that offers private catastrophe response services, announced that it would build its national response center at the Pellston Airport in Emmet [...]
Sovereign Deed, a company that calls itself the nation’s first private civil defense firm, has decided to establish its national response center in Northern Michigan. Company CEO, Barrett H. Moore, also founded Triple Canopy, a company he said, “commercialized the market for specialized military services,” and made over 500 million dollars in military contracts. The [...]
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