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.
Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. spent Tuesday evening at the African American Health Initiative in Lansing explaining the roots and complications of the ongoing foreclosure crisis.
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency filed suit Friday against 17 national and international banking giants for their roles in the toxic mortgage securities scandal that led to the current housing crisis.
Local and state officials are calling on the Michigan legislature to change the system for foreclosing on a property from its current foreclosure by advertisement system to one in which judges oversee the foreclosure process.
State and local officials held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce a push to eliminate Michigan’s foreclosure-by-advertisement law.
The Obama administration believes that in order to right the ship of the housing market, the federal government is going to have to stay actively involved.
Michigan leaders in the fight against the foreclosure crisis reacted strongly Sunday to revelations that mortgage giant Fannie Mae appears to have been pushing banks to foreclose on homeowners rather than continue negotiating loan modifications.
Two Michigan counties, Oakland and Ingham, are suing some of the biggest players in the mortgage industry for what one official called a “fraudulent conspiracy” to avoid paying state and county property transfer taxes.
Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa and Kalamazoo counties posted increases in foreclosure court filings for the month of May, but are still trailing actions from a year ago.
A committee of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a plan to fund an attorney that will be dedicated to helping homeowners battle the growing number of foreclosures based on faulty documents.
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