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.
House Republicans have put together legislation that they say will ferret out abuse of the program that provides food aid to 1.7 million people in Michigan, the Grand Rapids Press reports. In a package of bills referred to the House Judiciary Committee this week, the Republican lawmakers suggest random drug testing for people who receive [...]
Food assistance benefits were increased by 13.6 percent in April as part of the Obama administration’s stimulus package and Diane Conners of the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service reports that farmers who sell at the Eastern Market in Detroit are seeing significantly increased sales as food aid recipients spend more money on fresh produce.
WASHINGTON — A federal requirement that most international food aid be grown domestically — a boon for America’s farmers — is also hobbling efforts to feed the world’s hungry, according to a new government report released Thursday.
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