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The Michigan Messenger going forward

By Staff Report | 11.16.11

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 [...]

Colorado-based abstinence program provided false and misleading information to Michigan students

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.16.11

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.

Class action lawsuit filed against MERS over unpaid taxes

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By Todd A. Heywood | 11.15.11

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.

Schuette fights important mercury regulations

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By Eartha Jane Melzer | 11.14.11

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.

Posts Tagged financial crisis

Detroit can’t count on a jump-start from D.C.

By Mike Lillis | 11.15.08 | 2:06 pm

GOP draws the line at rescuing the Big Three

A false fix for the mortgage crisis

By Mary Kane | 11.13.08 | 2:02 pm

Michigan ranks among top ten states for foreclosures

Bonior: Obama’s opportunities rival FDR’s

By John Deeth | 11.11.08 | 11:14 pm

A former Democratic congressional leader who’s on the short list for a cabinet post in the Obama Administration says the president-elect has an opportunity to lead America like no president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

UPDATED — GM seconds the motion: Black Friday gets darker yet

By LoRayne Apo-Joynt | 11.07.08 | 11:35 am

General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) numbers have now been released, and they are far worse than analysts had expected. The largest of the Big Three automakers lost $4.2 billion or $7.35 per share; analysts had expected a loss in the range of $3.60 to $3.70 per share.

Evidence mounts that financial institutions plan to fund bonuses, not make loans with bailout bucks

By Mark Maynard | 10.28.08 | 6:53 am

In the recent bailout of U.S. financial institutions, JP Morgan Chase was given $25 billion by us, the American tax-payers. The hope, at least as it was expressed to us by our legislators, was that with this money the company would begin making loans, returning things to normal. According to New York Times reporter Joe [...]

Dow Chemical braces for a global recession

By Minehaha Forman | 10.24.08 | 1:16 pm

Despite turbulence in national and global markets and warnings of a global recession, Midland Mich.-based Fortune 500 company Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) has been tightening their fiscal belt and is still managing to keep afloat in the economic storm.

Lawmen balk at ‘cruel’ evictions of renters

By Todd A. Heywood | 10.24.08 | 7:14 am

Legislation to protect tenants in foreclosed buildings is stalled in Lansing

VIDEO: Financial crisis hits home in Detroit

By Minehaha Forman | 10.21.08 | 9:06 am

Financial advisers, clergy, university staffers, mail carriers, real estate agents all have their opinions on how it hurts, what’s to blame and which candidate can help

Huckabee to stump for Hoogendyk, blames economic crisis on terrorism

By Todd A. Heywood | 10.17.08 | 7:52 pm

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will be in Michigan next week stumping for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Hoogendyk.

Unapologetic titans of finance

By Matthew Blake | 10.11.08 | 8:33 pm

Wall Street CEOs accept no blame for huge losses

Former CEOs insist at congressional hearings that larger market forces, rather than decisions made by executives, caused Wall Street to unravel.